Martin Luther King III, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Rep. Jonathan Jackson cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," March 9, 2025, in Selma, Alabama. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty)
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."
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Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Aug. 19, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Jackson announced his retirement as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in 2023, naming Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III as the organization’s new leader.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
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