The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to attendees at the inaugural Sunday Dinner event on March 27, 2022. Meg Kinnard/AP/File

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from Northwestern Memorial Hospital Monday, the Rainbow PUSH Organization said , after sources said he was receiving care to manage his blood pressure.

Jackson, 84, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said in a previous statement. He is currently in stable condition, the organization that Jackson founded said Monday.

Jackson is returning to a residence, a source said.

“Our family would like to thank the countless friends and supporters who have reached out, visited, and prayed for our father,” said Yusef Jac

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