US Civil Rights Advocate Jesse Jackson Passes Away at 84 Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights figure and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, passed away at the age of 84 on Tuesday, according to his family. The statement shared by his loved ones described his death as occurring “peacefully” amid the presence of relatives. The family revealed that Jackson had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative disorder, in April 2025. This revised the earlier claim that he had been living with...