Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died at his home in Chicago at the age of 84. He was a member of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, marching alongside him for civil rights. He was with Dr. King when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Reverend Jackson was the founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago. He was the first African American to greet South African President Nelson Mandela when he came out of jail in 1990. Here's Reverend Jesse Jackson on Democracy Now! back in 2017 shortly after President Trump first took office. He spoke about expanding the constitutional right to vote.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: “When we got the right to vote in 1965, Blacks couldn’t vote. White women couldn’t serve on juries in the South. Eighteen-year-olds couldn’t vote. You couldn’t vote bilingually. You could not vote bilingually. But we were able to challenge that and get proportional representation and democratize democracy.”

After headlines, we’ll hear more from Reverend Jesse Jackson’s past appearances on Democracy Now!