By Will Dunham Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - 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,

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.

While Trump had nothing but nice words to say about Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, his Truth Social post called out the president’s political opposition.

Inside Fair Park, two teens at the African American Museum in Dallas answered a question: What does freedom represent to you? They were there Thursday for the 124th birthday of Juanita Craft. The late civil rights leader and Dallas City Council representative was a “local icon of liberation,