@sacramentourbanmedia916: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and later mounted two campaigns for president, has died at 84, his family announced. According to a statement, Jackson passed away peacefully Tuesday morning with his loved ones by his side. In recent years, Jackson had faced significant health challenges. He was hospitalized for monitoring in November, when doctors said he had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurological disorder. In 2017, he publicly shared that he had Parkinson’s disease, describing it as a “physical challenge” but emphasizing that it would not end his decades-long commitment to activism and social justice work. Parkinson’s disease had also affected his family; his father, Noah Lewis Robinson Sr., died in 1997 at age 88 after living with the condition. Jackson remained a prominent voice in civil rights and political advocacy throughout his life, even as his health declined.#fyp #viral

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