Notes of a Radical Son: Inheriting the Hidden Legacy of a Black American Family

An ambitious and vast family history, told from the perspective of the son of Black Panther martyr Jonathan Jackson, who is also the nephew of celebrated prison writer George Jackson, two figures who redefined Black Power and American dissent in the early 1970s.

In thirty-six minutes on a sweltering day in August 1970, there occurred one of the most tragic days in American history. Jonathan Peter Jackson, then a seventeen-year-old boy, attempted to free the Soledad Brothers, who included amo...