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Rev. Jesse Jackson hospitalized after fall in DC area

Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday in Washington, D.C., after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting living conditions on campus.

A spokesman says the 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a campus building when he fell and hit his head.

Jackson’s staff took him to Howard University Hospital for various tests including a CT scan, which came back normal.

Watkins said Jackson would be kept at the hospital overnight for observation. Jackson, who has Parkinson’s disease, has already been hospitalized twice this year, including for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection.

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