{"id":382747,"date":"2026-07-01T22:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:52:41","slug":"danny-glover-announces-he-has-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382747\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Glover Announces He Has Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018I can live with it, in a sense,\u2019 the San Francisco actor and activist said. <\/p>\n

Jul 1, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 2:39 pm PT<\/p>\n

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Danny Glover attends the 2022 Governors Awards in Hollywood on March 25, 2022. \u00a0(David Livingston\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n

On the TODAY show Wednesday morning, Danny Glover announced that he has Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The San Francisco-based actor and activist said he was initially diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can live with it, in a sense,\u201d Glover told NBC\u2019s Lester Holt during an on-air interview. \u201cI\u2019m sure as it advances, things are going to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now 79, the award-winning actor has etched an indelible legacy, known for roles in films like The Color Purple, Lethal Weapon and Angels in The Outfield. Local productions he\u2019s appeared in include Sorry to Bother You and The Last Black Man in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

He has said his favorite film to work on was Places in the Heart, and dedicated his performance to his mother, who was killed in a car accident on the day he was cast.<\/p>\n

\"ActorActor Danny Glover speaks during a rally on jobs December 7, 2016 at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC to demand good jobs and workers\u2019 rights from the incoming President-elect Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n

An activist before his acting career, Glover has remained involved in civic discourse. Since 2004, he\u2019s been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador<\/a>, in addition to sitting on the board of the Black AIDS Institute<\/a> and serving on the National African American Reparations Commission<\/a>. In 2010, Glover and 11 others were arrested<\/a> for protesting what the SEIU alleged were \u201cunfair and illegal treatment of workers\u201d by Sodexo.<\/p>\n

The following year, during the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, Glover spoke to protesters<\/a> in Oakland\u2019s Frank Ogawa Plaza. \u201cIt\u2019s not only taking back our democracy,\u201d Glover told the audience, \u201cwe have to remake it, we have to transform it, we have to build something better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover\u2019s activism led to a career in acting. As a San Francisco State University student, he was involved in the historic 1968\u20131969 student-led strike<\/a> at San Francisco State University<\/a> (then San Francisco State College), which resulted in the establishment of the first College of Ethnic Studies<\/a>. It was then that a young Glover, as an organizer and protestor, crossed paths with well-known poet Amiri Baraka<\/a> and was challenged to take his fight to the world of theatre.<\/p>\n

During his interview on TODAY, Glover discussed the connection between art and activism. \u201cWe have challenges in the world,\u201d he said, \u201cand I think art becomes a way of looking at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover is now one of an estimated 7.4 million Americans over the age of 65<\/a> living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The fifth leading cause of death among senior citizens, the disease disproportionately impacts African Americans. Older Black people are nearly twice as likely to have Alzheimer\u2019s or other dementias as older White Americans, according to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018I can live with it, in a sense,\u2019 the San Francisco actor and activist said. Jul 1, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-382747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}