Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who twice sought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 84.

Tributes have been paid to the late Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist and one of the US's most influential black voices, who died this morning aged 84.

CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the civil rights movement in the decades after the assassination Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died Tuesday, his family said. He was 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 said in a statement. Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement that “our nation lost one of its greatest moral voices” and paid tribute to a man who “carried history in his footsteps and hope in his voice.” "Reverend Jackson stood wherever dignity was under attack, from apartheid abroad to injustice at home. His voice echoed in boardrooms and in jail cells," Sharpton said. A cause of death was not immediately given. Jackson's family said he died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones. Reverend Jesse Jackson makes an appearance at a Democratic gathering at the Cheyenne…

Global figures, including former presidents and activists, share reactions to the passing of influential US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr has died at age 84.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades, has died. He was 84.

Prominent Baptist minister and longtime figure in the US civil rights movement Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson became a political force after working closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and running for president.

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. "Our father was…

The Rev Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday morning at age 84, according to a family statement.

A civil rights leader since the 1960s, Jesse Jackson was the most prominent black person to run for the US presidency until Barack Obama took the office in 2009.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.

Tributes are pouring in for the American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson who has died at the age of 84. He’s being remembered as a transformational figure in the civil rights movement and in American politics at large.FRANCE 24's Monte Francis has a look at some of the reaction to his passing away.

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who became a close associate of Martin Luther King, has died at age 84.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and twice ran for U.S. president, died on Tuesday. He was 84.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a towering figure in the American civil rights movement who evolved from a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. into a two-time presidential candidate and a global mediator, has died at the age of 84.

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has mourned the death of civil rights icon and renowned Baptist preacher, Reverend Jesse Jackson. DAILY POST reports that

In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a "Rainbow Coalition," start to threaten the presidential candidacy of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. They'd expected him to do well with Black voters, but not to win easily the state of Michigan or make major inroads within Americans of all stripes.

Monrovia – The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a towering force in the American civil rights movement who rose from close ally of Martin Luther King Jr. to become a two-time U.S. presidential candidate and international mediator, has died at the age of 84. His family announced his passing Tuesday, ho