Jesse Jackson dies at 84: Firebrand preacher gave hope to America’s forgotten
- Posted on February 17, 2026
- By The Mirror
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Jesse Jackson dies at 84: Firebrand preacher gave hope to America’s forgotten
Born in the “slums” of South Carolina and forever marked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Jesse Jackson electrified America with his call for a defiant “rainbow coalition” of the poor and excluded, and in death at 84 leaves a nation mourning a civil rights giant.
