GREENVILLE — Civil rights leader and South Carolina native the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. has been hospitalized in Chicago in connection with a rare brain disease diagnosed earlier this year.

The 84-year-old Greenville native, a two-time former presidential candidate, was admitted to an area hospital on Nov. 12 and is under observation, according to a statement from the advocacy group he founded, the Rainbow/Push Coalition.

For the past decade, Jackson has fought a public battle with what doctors originally believed to be Parkinson’s disease as his motor skills and ability to speak have diminished. Rainbow/Push says his diagnosis was redesignated this past April as “Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.”

PSP is a more-rare neurological disease that worsens over time and has no cure, according to

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