Rev. Jesse Jackson hospitalized after fall at Howard University

Jackson was on campus for a gathering with Howard College Pres. Wayne A.I. Frederick and college students to handle the scholars’ considerations about dwelling circumstances of their residential halls when he was injured, an announcement from the coalition mentioned.

“When Rev. Jackson entered a constructing on campus, he fell and hit his head. His workers took him to the Howard College Hospital the place varied checks have been run together with a CT scan. The outcomes got here again regular. Nonetheless, hospital officers determined to maintain Rev. Jackson in a single day for commentary,” the civil rights group based by Jackson mentioned.

Monday’s incident is the most recent of current well being considerations for the 80-year-old Jackson.

He and his spouse, Jacqueline Jackson, 77, have been each hospitalized in August after testing constructive for Covid-19 and discharged in early September. Jackson then acquired bodily remedy at a rehab facility resulting from his Parkinson’s illness and was released later that month.

In February, it was introduced that the civil rights chief had undergone profitable surgical procedure after being hospitalized for stomach discomfort.

Pupil protests

College students at Howard College have been protesting since mid-October towards what they are saying are substandard dwelling circumstances resembling mildew, mice and roaches in campus dorms.

Black leaders have rallied around the students on the traditionally Black faculty, who’ve been assembling for sit-ins to demand that the college tackle their considerations.

Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and NAACP President Derrick Johnson are amongst these to have praised the scholars for taking the motion.

Frederick, the college president, addressed the protests in a letter to the Howard neighborhood final week.

Frederick known as on college students to finish their occupation of a college heart, saying they have been impeding “operations and entry to important providers” and creating well being and security dangers.

The college was working with housing companions to make sure that all upkeep tickets have been dealt with expeditiously, he mentioned.

CNN’s Nicquel Terry Ellis and Jennifer Henderson contributed to this report.