Kim Vennell

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Hi, I'm Kim Vennell in Whanganui, New Zealand.

And I'm Carmel Crimmins in Dublin.

It's Tuesday, February 17th.

Today, US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84.

His family said he died peacefully but didn't give a cause.

The eloquent Baptist minister was America's most influential black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr.

and the election of Barack Obama.

On the day King was assassinated, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Jackson was just a floor below.

An impassioned orator, Jackson ran for president twice, long before Obama's election in 2018.

Ultimately, he never held elective office, but remained America's preeminent civil rights figure for decades, continuing his activism later in life, condemning the police killing of George Floyd and other black Americans in 2020 during the global racial justice movement.

Hi, I'm Kim Vennell in Whanganui, New Zealand.

It's Thursday, January 29th.

Today, Trump steps up his threats against Tehran.

Democrats demand ICE agents unmask in a row that could partially shut down the government.