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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 file photo, Rev. Jesse Jackson receives the Pfizer's BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Kiran Chekka, Covid Administration Physician at the Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago. Family members say the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been transferred to a hospital focused on physical rehabilitation after receiving treatment for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection. A family statement released Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 , also said his wife, Jacqueline, has been moved to an intensive care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is receiving oxygen but breathing on her own. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Jesse Jackson released from Chicago facility after COVID recovery

By Sophia Tareen - Associated Press

In this Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, file photo, the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to the crowd during a demonstration supporting voting rights, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. He is vaccinated against the virus and publicly received his first dose in January. According to a statement released Saturday evening, the Jacksons are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He is 79 years old. Jacqueline Jackson is 77. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Jesse Jackson and wife remain under observation for COVID-19

By ophia Tareen - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2021 file photo, Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks before receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago. Jackson was discharged Tuesday, March 2, 2021, from a rehabilitation center where he spent more than three weeks following an illness and surgery. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Jesse Jackson out of rehabilitation center after surgery

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Jesse Jackson released for therapy post gallbladder surgery

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Monica Conyers, widow of the late U.S. Rep. John Conyers, pauses at her husband's casket during visitation services at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. Conyers died Sunday, Oct. 27, at age 90, two years after resigning from the U.S. House. (Robin Buckson/Detroit News via AP)

Bill Clinton among those honoring US Rep. Conyers at funeral

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The American civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson visits the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Rev. Jesse Jackson gathered Friday with survivors at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate an often forgotten genocide — that of the Roma people. In addition to the 6 million Jews killed in camps such as Auschwitz, the Nazis killed other minorities during World War II, including between 250,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

AP Interview: Jesse Jackson slams ‘dangerous’ Trump rhetoric

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Annual International Convention Friday, June 28, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Biden clarifies record on civil rights after debates: I ‘fought my heart out to ensure’ equal rights

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Jesse Jackson meets with GM workers about racist threats

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Louis Farrakhan, from left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton attend the funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Networks crop Farrakhan from Clinton/Jackson/Sharpton image at Aretha’s funeral

By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (left), councilmember Jack Evans and councilmember Brianne Nadeau presented Ben's Chili Bowl co-founder Virginia Ali with a ceremonial resolution declaring Aug. 22 as "Ben's Chili Bowl Day" in the District. (Julia Airey/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

D.C. block party pays tribute to Ben’s Chili Bowl

By Julia Airey - The Washington Times

In this June 13, 2018 photo, an organizer, foreground, speaks to families as they wait to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. In Tijuana, Latin Americans fleeing drug violence in their countries are camped out and waiting to apply for U.S. asylum - undeterred by the new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week to bar victims of gang violence from qualifying. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Black religious leaders criticize Sessions’ use of scripture

By TRAMON LUCAS - Associated Press

File-This Nov. 24, 2015, file photo shows Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking to the media during a vigil for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot and killed Oct. 20, 2014 in Chicago. Jackson says he’s deeply insulted by a Fox News host’s “attack” on Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James. Political commentator Laura Ingraham criticized the three-time NBA champion for his recent comments about social issues, suggesting he should “shut up and dribble.” Jackson says it’s important for James, Stephen (STEH'-fehn) Curry, Kevin Durant and other NBA players to keep speaking out against injustice and the behavior of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)

Jesse Jackson: LeBron’s ‘slam dunk for justice is needed’

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Jesse Jackson blasts Trump, envisions progressive coalition

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses inmates at Cook County Jail during a Christmas Day sermon on Monday, Dec. 25, 2017, in Chicago. Jackson disclosed a 2015 diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease last month. The 76-year-old said he’s trying to manage progression of the disease with daily medication, physical therapy and prayer. (AP Photo/Sophia Tareen)

Rev Jackson says he manages Parkinson’s with daily therapy

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this University of California file photo, Jesse Jackson, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks at a rally at the University of California, Berkeley. For more than 50 years, Jackson has been in the public eye as an activist, a two-time presidential candidate and a guiding force in the modern civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)

Jesse Jackson’s decades in public eye shaped by many roles

By SHARON COHEN and COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press