Jesse Jackson, Towering Icon of Civil Rights, Dies Following Lengthy Illness
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February 18, 2026
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and failure to support voting rights, has died. Jackson was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, a Democratic presidential candidate and one of the world’s best-known […]
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