Jesse Jackson Hospitalized With Rare Brain Disorder PSP

Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who spent decades shaping American public life, now faces a quieter and more personal struggle: a rare degenerative brain disorder called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, confirmed this past April after years of living under a Parkinson's diagnosis. At 84, he has been hospitalized as the disease — which gradually erodes movement, vision, balance, and cognition — continues its progression. His story joins the long human reckoning with neurological illness, where the mind that once moved crowds must now contend with a condition that moves against it, and whe