Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital where he was treated for a rare neurological disorder, according to his son.
The 84-year-old civil rights activist had been receiving medical care for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He had been hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for at least 12 days before being released.
The longtime activist is now in stable condition after receiving treatment.
“Our family would like to thank the countless friends and supporters who have reached out, visited, and prayed for our father,” Yusef Jackson said in a statement on behalf of the family. “We bear witness to the fact that prayer works… We humbly ask for your continued prayers throughout this precious time.”
Jackson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013. In April 2025, the diagnosis was reclassified as PSP, for which there is currently no cure.
Jackson announced his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2017.
“After a battery of tests, my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson’s disease, a disease that bested my father,” he said at the time. “Recognition of the effects of this disease on me has been painful, and I have been slow to grasp the gravity of it.”
The longtime political activist, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has faced several health challenges in recent years, including gallbladder surgery and hospitalization due to COVID-19.