Jesse Jackson

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Acting

Born

Oct 8, 1941

Died

Feb 17, 2026

From

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.

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The Daily Show

19966.4out of 10

Saturday Night Live

19756.9out of 10

Real Time with Bill Maher

20036.0out of 10

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

20217.6out of 10

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

20035.3out of 10

LA 92

20177.8out of 10

Explained

20187.4out of 10

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

19827.4out of 10

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

20216.8out of 10

A Different World

19877.2out of 10

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

20137.1out of 10

4 Little Girls

19977.1out of 10

Baseball

19947.5out of 10

BaadAsssss Cinema

20026.0out of 10

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

20217.4out of 10

Fantastic Lies

20167.2out of 10

Wattstax

19736.8out of 10

Uptight

19686.8out of 10