Jesse Jackson hospitalized after fall at Howard University

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday successful Washington D.C. aft falling and hitting his caput portion helping Howard University students who are protesting surviving conditions connected campus.

A spokesperson says the 80-year-old Chicago civilian rights person was entering a field gathering erstwhile helium fell and deed his head.

Jackson’s unit took him to Howard University Hospital for assorted tests including a CT scan which came backmost normal.

Spokesperson Frank Watkins said Jackson would beryllium kept astatine the infirmary overnight for observation. His daughter, Santita, tweeted Monday evening that her begetter was resting comfortably and doing well.

Jackson, who has Parkinson’s disease, has already been hospitalized doubly this year, including for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection.

Since recovering from COVID-19, Jackson has returned to traveling and nationalist speaking.