"Our father was a servant leader not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world, the Jackson family said in a statement. We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by."
"I was a trailblazer, I was a pathfinder. I had to deal with doubt and cynicism and fears about a Black person running. There were Black scholars writing papers about why I was wasting my time. Even Blacks said a Black couldn't win. It was a big moment in history, Jackson told the Guardian, 12 years later. Twenty years later, the first Black president, Barack Obama, saluted Jackson for making his victory possible."
"No cause of death was given. Jackson had had progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) for more than a decade. He was originally diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He was also twice hospitalised with Covid in recent years. During the Covid pandemic, he campaigned against disparities in care and outcomes, asking: After 400 years of slavery, segregation and discrimination, why would anybody be shocked that African Americans are dying disproportionately from the coronavirus?"
Rev Jesse Jackson died at 84. The Jackson family called him a servant leader to family and the oppressed worldwide and urged continuation of his values of justice, equality, and love. No cause of death was given; he had progressive supranuclear palsy for over a decade after an initial Parkinson's diagnosis and was twice hospitalised with Covid. Jackson was a fixture in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics since the 1960s, once close to Martin Luther King Jr., and ran strongly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. During the Covid pandemic he campaigned against disparities in care and outcomes for African Americans.
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