Former presidential candidate and Civil Rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson was recently hospitalized and is now breathing without the help of machines, his family says.

Jackson was admitted to the hospital last week for “observation of a neurodegenerative condition with which he was diagnosed earlier this year,” per CBS News. Initial reports said that Jackson had been put on life support, but his family said on Sunday that the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder is now stabilized and breathing on his own without machine assistance.

“In fact, today he called for 2,000 churches to prepare 2,000 baskets of food to prevent malnutrition during the holiday season,” said his son, Yusef Jackson.

The family added that Jackson, 84, will remain under the care of doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospi

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