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U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in hospital with injury -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO Reverend Jesse Jackson protests the expiration the Federal Moratorium on Residential Evictions in Washington (U.S.A.), August 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

(Reuters) – U.S. civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson is in hospital following an injury sustained while attending a Howard University conference, Howard University officials said Monday.

Jackson (80) has been an American civil rights leader since the 1960s. He was also there with Martin Luther King in 1968 when he was assassinated.

We can confirm Rev. Jackson was transported to the hospital by an administrator of the university,” Jackson said the university. The university is based in Washington, D.C.

CNN broadcast Jackson’s results from medical testing were normal. Officials at Jackson’s hospital decided to leave him alone overnight as observation.

Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a group founded by Jackson, confirmed https://cnn.it/2ZS90jN to CNN that he was taken to hospital after he fell and hit his head on entering a campus building.

The group didn’t immediately reply to Reuters’s request for comment.

Jackson was taken to hospital by COVID-19 after Jackson tested positive in August. He was later diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.

This civil rights activist tried to win the Democratic presidential nomination two times in 1980s but was unsuccessful.

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