Jesse Jackson Dies at 84 After Battle With Rare Brain Disease PSP

Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights leader, died at age 84 after years of progressive physical decline from PSP, which severely impaired his mobility, voice, and swallowing.

Jesse Jackson, who spent a lifetime amplifying the voices of the marginalized, died at 84 after a decade-long struggle with progressive supranuclear palsy — a rare neurological disease that dismantles the body's most fundamental functions while leaving the spirit, in his case, defiantly intact. His passing closes a chapter in American civil rights history, one written in protest marches, presidential campaigns, and, at the very end, arrests made from a body already in decline. The disease that claimed him remains without cure, a quiet and relentless adversary that even the most resolute will c

Jesse Jackson Dies at 84 After Battle With Rare Brain Disease PSP

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