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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:00 AM Nov 2025

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, 84, hospitalized [View all]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/jesse-jackson-hospitalized-hnk

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized, according to a statement obtained by CNN.

Jackson, 84, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said Wednesday evening.
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PSP is “a rare neurological disorder that affects body movements, walking and balance, and eye movements,” according to the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

The disease typically begins in a person’s 60s and has some symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, it adds. Most people with PSP develop severe disability within three to five years.
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