Rev. Jesse Jackson Hospitalized Amid Health Battle
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- Jackson revealed his Parkinson’s diagnosis publicly in 2017, acknowledging the challenge and pain of the disease.
- His decades of public service included work alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leadership of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded as a merger of earlier groups in 1996.
- Jackson retired from his role as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in 2023, appointing Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III as successor.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights figure, has been hospitalized for observation due to progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease. His organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, reported that Jackson, now 84, has managed this condition for over a decade.
Originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, doctors confirmed his PSP diagnosis in April of last year. The Jackson family has requested prayers as he continues his health fight.
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