Rev Jesse Jackson released from hospital after treatment for rare brain disorder
Longtime civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson was disclosed from a Chicago hospital on Monday after receiving diagnostic care for at least days for a rare brain disorder according to his family Jackson was discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and remains in stable condition his son and family spokesperson Yusef Jackson declared in a announcement The Baptist minister social activist and former U S presidential candidate was admitted to the hospital earlier this month to be under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy PSP a rare neurodegenerative ailment that affects balance movement and eye motion Jackson was diagnosed with Parkinson s complaint in In April the finding was reclassified as PSP for which there is in the present no cure MONTEL WILLIAMS GETS CANDID ABOUT MS CHRONIC PAIN AND OPIOID ABUSE AFTER BLUNT WARNING FROM MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL Our family would like to thank the countless friends and supporters who have reached out visited and prayed for our father Yusef Jackson added in the report issued through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition a Chicago-based progressive organization the elder Jackson founded We bear witness to the fact that prayer works and would also like to thank the professional caring and amazing healthcare and safety staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital he added We humbly ask for your continued prayers throughout this precious time Jackson released his Parkinson s evaluation in After a battery of tests my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson's disorder a complaint that bested my father he revealed at the time Recognition of the effects of this sickness on me has been painful and I have been slow to grasp the gravity of it MICHAEL J FOX ADMITS IT S HARD FOR ME TO MAINTAIN HUMOR DURING PARKINSON S BATTLEThe longtime political activist who worked alongside Dr Martin Luther King Jr has faced several fitness challenges in contemporary years including gallbladder surgery and hospitalization due to COVID- In he was hospitalized in Washington D C after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students protesting campus living conditions Jackson became a key lieutenant to King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC in the s He was involved in the Selma to Montgomery marches three protest marches held in in Alabama to advocate for voting rights for African Americans After King s assassination in Jackson became one of the bulk prominent heirs to King s legacy of activism Jackson is considered one of the the majority prominent civil rights leaders ministers and political figures in modern American history Jackson twice ran for president as a Democrat in and The Rainbow PUSH Coalition was formed by the elder Jackson in by merging two groups he had founded Operation PUSH People United to Save Humanity and the National Rainbow Coalition Fox News Ashley Carnahan and Reuters contributed to this analysis
