From USA TODAY.
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 and had suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare disease that causes a decline similar to Parkinson’s disease but accelerated.
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