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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sophia Tareen

Chicago civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hospitalized for rare neurological disorder

Jesse Jackson - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been receiving around-the-clock care at home, has been hospitalized with a rare neurological disorder, according to his Chicago-based organization.

The civil rights leader was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease over a decade ago. But his Rainbow/PUSH organization said late Wednesday that the 84-year-old was under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, a neurodegenerative disorder he has been “managing for more than a decade” and received a diagnosis for in April.

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