What’s next for Jesse Jackson

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By Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1984 Democratic presidential candidate and protege of Martin Luther King Jr., made headlines on July 14 when he announced that Dallas-area megachurch pastor Rev. Frederick Haynes III would succeed him as leader of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a Chicago-based civil rights organization Jackson founded. On the day of the announcement, TIME Senior Correspondent Janell Ross spoke to Jackson, now 81 and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, about his lasting influence on American politics and society—and what comes next.  “I struggle to speak,” Jackson told Ross. “But I can still think. I can still write. There is still work that I want to do, work I intend to do.” Click here to read the full story.

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