Jesse Jackson Hospitalized With Rare Neurological Disorder PSP

One of the defining voices of American civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, now 84, lies hospitalized in Chicago as a rare and incurable neurological disorder quietly completes what decades of political opposition could not. Progressive supranuclear palsy — a disease that dismantles balance, sight, and speech — has brought a man who once ran for the presidency and marched beside Dr. King to a place where connection is measured in the gentle pressure of a hand. His condition is described as stable, but stability here is not recovery; it is the stillness before the next descent.