|
Physicians at the Northwestern University Memorial Hospital in
Chicago are carefully monitoring Jackson, 79, and his wife,
Jacqueline, 77, because of their ages, a day after the two were
hospitalised, their son Jonathan said https://bit.ly/3gk30p1 in
a statement issued by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a group
founded by his father. [
"Both are resting comfortably and are responding 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
assassinated in 1968.
Jackson sought the Democratic presidential nomination twice in
the 1980s, but fell short of becoming the first Black major
party White House nominee.
He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by French president Emmanuel
Macron in July, one of France's highest honours, in recognition
of what he called "a long walk towards emancipation and
justice".
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Jahnavi Nidumolu in Bengaluru;
Editing by Gerry Doyle)
[© 2021 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2021 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.
|
|
