Civil rights champion Andrew Young, who also formerly served as Atlanta’s mayor and a United Nations ambassador, has been released from the hospital, according to a source close to his family.

Former Atlanta mayor and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young is back home after a brief stint in the hospital, according to his family. The Young family said on Friday that the 92-year-old former mayor and ambassador was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

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