The nation is remembering the Rev. Jesse Jackson
In Chicago, the nation is remembering the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader and two‑time presidential candidate, after his death at 84.
Jackson’s family says he died peacefully on Tuesday, decades after rising from aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to a national figure in politics and activism. He founded the Rainbow push Coalition, ran historic campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and remained visible in causes ranging from voting rights to criminal justice.
