{"id":234016,"date":"2026-02-17T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/veteran-us-civil-rights-activist-jesse-jackson-dies-aged-84\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:20:39","slug":"veteran-us-civil-rights-activist-jesse-jackson-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/veteran-us-civil-rights-activist-jesse-jackson-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran\u00a0US\u00a0civil\u00a0rights\u00a0activist\u00a0Jesse\u00a0Jackson dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the nation&rsquo;s most influential Black voices, died peacefully Tuesday morning, his family said in a statement. He was 84. Jackson, a Baptist minister, had been a civil rights leader since the 1960s, when he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and helped fundraise for the cause.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the nation&rsquo;s most influential Black voices, died peacefully Tuesday morning, his family said in a statement. He was 84. Jackson, a Baptist minister, had been a civil rights leader since the 1960s, when he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and helped fundraise for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-234016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}