Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights leader and former U.S. presidential candidate, has been hospitalized, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition announced Nov. 12.

Jackson, 84, was admitted to a hospital on Nov. 12 and is currently under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The civil rights organization said Jackson has been managing the rare neurodegenerative disease for more than a decade.

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