2021Nominee
Best Performance
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Jesse Jackson
Actor
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
October 8, 1941
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1972Winner
Best Performance
Nationtime: Gary
2021Winner
Best Performance
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Performance
University, Inc.
2013Highlight
Best Performance
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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Nationtime: Gary
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic