Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was the architect of modern multiracial progressive politics, the man who stretched the boundaries of who America could see as presidential, and one of the last living bridges between the Civil Rights Movement and the political world we are still fighting to build.
The tributes have been rolling in all day.
Cable news has been looping archival footage. Old campaign stops. Convention speeches. Marches. Sermons. And the cadence of a voice that, for decades, sounded like both warning and promise.… Read more



