UPDATE: Jesse Jackson Released from Hospital after Fall

FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Washington, D.C. hospital a day after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting campus living conditions.

A Jackson spokesman says the 80-year-old left Howard University Hospital after an overnight stay and was back with students Tuesday.

Various tests including a CT scan came back normal, but hospital officials wanted Jackson, who has Parkinson’s disease, to stay overnight for observation.

Jackson fell and hit his head when he entered a campus building.

The civil rights leader has been hospitalized two other times this year, including for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection.

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