Chido Nwangwu writes about the life and times of United States rights activist and servant-leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed on Tuesday aged 84.
Our father was a servant-leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family, painfully but proudly wrote in their announcement of his death, early that morning of Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
I believe that the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s historic roles in the battles of his time to “bend the arc of justice” towards the liberation of the oppressed, the empowerment of the exploited and dispossessed, will remain commendable chapters in any factual, historical chronicles of these United States and worldwide.
