Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday with complications from a neurodegenerative disease, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the social.
Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday with complications from a neurodegenerative disease, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the social justice group he founded. Jackson, 84, has been living with progressive supranuclear palsy, an illness often mistaken for Parkinson’s disease, for more than 10 years, though his definitive diagnosis came only in April, per the Los Angeles Times.
