The Life, Legacy, and Passing of Jesse Jackson

Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. In this episode, I discuss his early life growing up in the segregated American South, to his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr., his leadership after King’s assassination, his groundbreaking presidential campaigns, and his decades of activism that helped reshape American politics and civil rights advocacy. This episode is about persistence, courage, complexity, and hope — and about what it means when history moves from living memory into legacy.