Carolina Healthcare Network Presents A Weekend With Jacqueline L. Jackson

Raleigh, NC – Jacqueline L. Jackson, wife of civil rights leader Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., and her son, former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., will spend May 3rd – May 5th in the Triangle. They are promoting her first book, Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison.  

Mrs. Jackson, the mother of five children, promised her son Congressman Jackson, that she would write him every day during his incarceration in federal prison to serve his thirty-month sentence. This book is an inspiring and moving selection of the letters she wrote him. Together, they comprise a powerful act of love – nurturing and ministering to her son’s heart, health, and mind and maintaining his essential connection with home.

Sponsored by Carolina Healthcare Network, LLC, the two will make stops in Raleigh and Durham to discuss what writing and receiving those letters meant to each of them. The schedule is:

Friday, May 3, 2019

7:00 pm

Quail Ridge Bookstore

4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road, (North Hills)

Raleigh, NC 27609

NOTE: The Raleigh book tour stop will be carried live on C-SPAN. Seats will be available for the public without any purchase required. If you’d like a reserved seat and priority signing line ticket, you can pre-purchase the book­. For more info on reserving a seat, click here.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

12:00 noon until 3:00 pm

The Durham Hotel Rooftop

315 E. Chapel Hill St.

Durham, NC 27701

NOTE: RSVP not requested however, seating is limited, so early arrivals are highly recommended.

Sunday, May 4, 2019

10:30 am

The River Church

4900 Prospectus Dr.

Durham, NC 27713. (The Regulator Bookshop)

Frank, anecdotal, imbued with faith, and sometimes humorous, the letters offer intimate details from the family’s daily life, along with news of friends and the community and glimpses of such figures as Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and Mayor Marion Barry. They also touch eloquently on issues of social justice, politics, and history, as when Mrs. Jackson recalls growing up in Jim Crow Florida, and they reflect the qualities, instilled by her own mother, that made her a role model for much of her life.

Ultimately, these letters offer a blueprint for why we have to support our families not just as they elevate but when they fall. This collection is Mrs. Jackson’s contribution to healing during a time when our prisons are full and our communities are suffering. She provides the road map for ensuring that the individuals serving sentences understand that prison is where they are, not who they are and for helping them sustain the courage to keep hope alive.

Jacqueline L. Jackson is a committed public servant through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a supporter of equality for women, and an advocate for strong family bonds and relationships. The Jackson’s have been married for fifty-five years, and they continue to push for equality, justice, and economic empowerment across all color lines. Mrs. Jackson hosts a woman’s luncheon at the annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago, where she invites speakers to address women’s issues of the day. She attended the March on Washington for the #MeToo movement and continues to influence thought leaders in her community. She lives in Chicago and Washington, DC.

Ultimately, this collection is Mrs. Jackson’s contribution to healing during a time when our prisons are full and many in minority communities are suffering. While we wait on reform and seek corrective actions, she provides the roadmap for ensuring that anyone incarcerated understands that prison is where they are, not who they are, and for helping them sustain the courage to Keep Hope Alive! The book includes an introduction and afterword by Congressman Jackson.

Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. served eight terms in the US House of Representatives, from 1995 to his resignation in 2012, and was reelected for a ninth term but declined to serve. He has been secretary of the Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus, national field director of the National Rainbow Coalition, and a member Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, he attended college at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, NC, and has advance degrees from Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Illinois College of Law in Chicago, IL. He lives in Chicago.

For more information, contact April L. Smith at antcoley@gmail.com or call 919-605-4681.

About Carolina Healthcare Network, LLC

Carolina Healthcare Network (CHN) is committed to providing exemplary homecare and professional staffing services while focusing on high-quality, individual healthcare. CHN is a unique organization of networking professional and paraprofessionals who embrace the philosophy of “Partners in Caring-Providing Quality Services.” Their office is based in Durham, North Carolina and their employees excel in accountability and adapt easily. Despite obvious nursing shortage, CHN represents a network demonstrating retention at its best. CHN specialty areas include caregiving, clinical research, critical care, dialysis, emergency services, geriatrics, nursing management, mediation, pediatrics, psychiatry, senior advocacy, substance abuse, and wound speciality. For more information, visit https://carolinahealthcarenetwork.org/