{"id":339027,"date":"2026-02-17T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/reverend-jesse-jackson-dead-at-84"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:43:13","slug":"reverend-jesse-jackson-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/reverend-jesse-jackson-dead-at-84","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Jesse Jackson Lifeless at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\">\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Dead At 84<\/span><br \/>\n           <\/h2>\n<p>    <!--\/.social-media-container--><\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-02-17T02:11:00-08:00\"><br \/>\n               February 17, 2026<br \/>\n              2:11 AM PST<\/time>\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section id=\"cb-bb933331b1dbc1352ffd097c94c344d6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n         <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20211102_90f28bc7586646d49ab6ff6aabf4458e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:74219b48-483c-4cc9-8fd8-79606d9dee79\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>             <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"I Am Somebody\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/90\/4by3\/2021\/11\/02\/90f28bc7586646d49ab6ff6aabf4458e_md.jpg\" alt=\"1102-reverend-jesse-jackson-primary\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p>         <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-bb933331b1dbc1352ffd097c94c344d6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-588c4bf17d94c3e371a3491a7d9a4e90\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who twice ran for U.S. president, has died, according to his family.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-588c4bf17d94c3e371a3491a7d9a4e90--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-9625f9572e7ff6111955345ad2ab1a97\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Jesse&#8217;s family issued a statement Tuesday morning, saying &#8230; &#8220;Our father was a servant leader \u2014 not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-9625f9572e7ff6111955345ad2ab1a97--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-cac6f4cafa936752cd016efb1e9df5e4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>They went on &#8230; \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-cac6f4cafa936752cd016efb1e9df5e4--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-4f1093b006f063f1e0b2c169c337ff2f\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Jackson died peacefully with his loved ones at his side. In November, Jesse was hospitalized after living for over a decade with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The disease impacts patients\u2019 ability to walk and swallow and has dangerous complications.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-4f1093b006f063f1e0b2c169c337ff2f--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-ca049e6ff34542a64b02e48e64a8c1d1\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s official cause of death was not released.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-ca049e6ff34542a64b02e48e64a8c1d1--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-76d53823d18a38dfc028c1fd9a13b7ce\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>He was 84.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-76d53823d18a38dfc028c1fd9a13b7ce--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-d645f35b472806dbcbba5e83354f7154\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-d645f35b472806dbcbba5e83354f7154--><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/17\/reverend-jesse-jackson-dead\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Jesse Jackson Dead At 84 Published February 17, 2026 2:11 AM PST Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who twice ran for U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17035,17021,17020,420,17034,609,17033,17019,173],"class_list":["post-339027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-i-am-somebody","tag-jesse","tag-jesse-jackson","tag-lifeless","tag-national-youth-movement","tag-president","tag-rainbow-push-coalition","tag-servant-chief","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339029,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339027\/revisions\/339029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}