‘Unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and human rights’: family of Jesse Jackson pay tribute to civil rights champion – live

Ordained minister and activist who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination had been living with progressive supranuclear palsyMy colleagues Melissa Hellmann and Martin Pengelly have looked back at the Rev Jesse Jackson’s extraordinary contribution to the civil rights movement and how he fought for the rights of Black Americans and other people of colour alongside his mentor Martin Luther King Jr:A fixture in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics since the 1960s, Jackson was once close to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading...