Rev Jesse Jackson released from hospital after treatment for rare brain disorder

Longtime civilian rights activistic Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from a Chicago infirmary connected Monday aft receiving aesculapian attraction for astatine slightest 12 days for a uncommon encephalon disorder, according to his family.

Jackson, 84, was discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and remains successful unchangeable condition, his lad and household spokesperson Yusef Jackson said successful a statement.

The Baptist minister, societal activistic and erstwhile U.S. statesmanlike campaigner was admitted to the infirmary earlier this period to beryllium nether reflection for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a uncommon neurodegenerative illness that affects balance, question and oculus motion. Jackson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s illness successful 2013. In April 2025, the diagnosis was reclassified arsenic PSP, for which determination is presently nary cure.

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Longtime civilian rights activistic Rev. Jesse Jackson pictured astatine the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center successful Chicago, Illinois, connected Aug. 19, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Our household would similar to convey the countless friends and supporters who person reached out, visited, and prayed for our father," Yusef Jackson added successful the connection issued done the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a Chicago-based progressive enactment the elder Jackson founded. 

"We carnivore witnesser to the information that supplication works and would besides similar to convey the professional, caring, and astonishing aesculapian and information unit astatine Northwestern Memorial Hospital," helium added. "We humbly inquire for your continued prayers passim this precious time."

Jackson announced his Parkinson’s diagnosis successful 2017.

"After a artillery of tests, my physicians identified the contented arsenic Parkinson's disease, a illness that bested my father," helium said astatine the time. "Recognition of the effects of this illness connected maine has been painful, and I person been dilatory to grasp the gravity of it."

Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson be Day One of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) successful Chicago, Illinois, connected Aug. 19, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

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The longtime governmental activist, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has faced respective wellness challenges successful caller years, including gallbladder country and hospitalization owed to COVID-19.

In 2021, helium was hospitalized successful Washington, D.C., aft falling and hitting his caput portion helping Howard University students protesting field surviving conditions.

Jackson became a cardinal lieutenant to King successful the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) successful the 1960s. He was progressive successful the Selma to Montgomery marches, 3 protestation marches held successful 1965 successful Alabama to advocator for voting rights for African Americans.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. delivers a code during a statesmanlike run halt with Rep. Maxine Waters and supporters astatine the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel, June 6, 1984. (Bob Riha Jr./Getty)

After King’s assassination successful 1968, Jackson became 1 of the astir salient heirs to King’s bequest of activism. Jackson is considered 1 of the astir salient civilian rights leaders, ministers and governmental figures successful modern American history. Jackson doubly ran for president arsenic a Democrat, successful 1984 and 1988.

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The Rainbow PUSH Coalition was formed by the elder Jackson successful 1996 by merging 2 groups helium had founded: Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition.

Fox News’ Ashley Carnahan and Reuters contributed to this report.