Reverend Jesse Jackson arrives at a demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the expiration of the federal moratorium on home evictions in Washington, United States, on August 2, 2021. REUTERS / Evelyn Hockstein
Aug 23 (Reuters) – Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and his wife are responding “positively” to treatments after contracting COVID-19, their son said in a statement on Sunday.
Doctors at Chicago’s Northwestern University Memorial Hospital are monitoring Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77, because of their age the day after they were hospitalized, their son Jonathan said in a statement from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, one of his father’s founded group.[Readmore[readmore[Weiterlesen[readmore
“They both rest comfortably and respond positively to their treatments,” he said.
Jackson, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, has been a leader of the U.S. civil rights movement since the mid-1960s and was with Martin Luther King when he was murdered in 1968.
Jackson tried twice for the Democratic presidential run in the 1980s, but failed to become the first black party candidate in the White House.
He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by French President Emmanuel Macron in July, one of the highest honors in France, in recognition of what he called “a long road to emancipation and justice”. Continue reading
Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Jahnavi Nidumolu in Bengaluru; Editing by Gerry Doyle
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