Civil Rights Icon Jesse Jackson Joins The Ancestors

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. He was 84. Jackson was hospitalized on Nov. 12 following a lengthy battle with the neuromuscular disease progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease. He was released from the hospital later that month. Jackson was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, a Democratic presidential candidate and one of the world's best-known Black activists. Despite the illness that softened his voice and weakened his steps, he had continued to advocate for civil rights, and was arrested twice in 2021 over his objection to the Senate filibuster rule. That same year he and his wife Jacqueline were hospitalized with COVID-19 complications at a Chicago hospital. Renowned for his ability to weave unity across borders of race, class, gender and religion, Jesse Jackson's legacy is a tapestry of efforts to promote civil and human rights, peace, equality and economic and social justice. His career spanned activism, politics and diplomacy. #jessejackson #civilrights #martinlutherking #restinpower #blackconsciousness Join this channel to really set it off: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcr-MvAMettt8yktc9t4ag/join PATREON: Patreon.com/ReeseWaters Support the Channel 🙏🏽 MERCH SHOP: thepeoplesgetup.com Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ReeseWaters Cashapp: $ReeseWatersTips Paypal: @ReeseWatersTips Follow Me on Social 👏🏽 #reesewaters Twitter: https://twitter.com/reesewaters Instagram: https://instagram.com/@reesewaters Email: [email protected]