Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hospitalized

"The household appreciates each prayers astatine this time," according to a statement.

The civilian rights person Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition announced Wednesday evening.

Jackson, 84, has been admitted to the infirmary and is nether reflection for progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurodegenerative condition, which helium has been managing for a decade, the enactment said successful a statement.

"The household appreciates each prayers astatine this time," the radical said.

Civil Rights person Rev. Jesse Jackson visits with guests astatine the National Bar Association's yearly normal connected July 31, 2025 successful Chicago, Illinois. The National Bar Association is the nation's oldest and largest web of predominately achromatic ineligible professionals. Former President Joe Biden was scheduled to talk astatine the event's awards gala aboriginal successful the evening.

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Jackson was primitively diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, nevertheless his PSP information was confirmed successful April, the enactment said.

Jackson, a protege to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who roseate to prominence arsenic 1 of the nation's foremost civilian rights leaders and doubly ran for U.S. president, stepped down successful 2023 from the enactment of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which helium founded.

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