From a mom, function model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of want to a kid in his darkest hour.

Jacqueline Jackson promised her boy, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she’d write him every day during his incarceration in federal prison to serve his thirty-month phrase. This book is an inspiring and moving selection of the words she wrote him. Together, they comprise a robust act of love―nurturing and ministering to her son’s center, health, and brain and preserving about Loving You, Thinking of You, Do not forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Jail his essential reference to home. Frank, anecdotal, imbued with beliefs, and sometimes humorous, they offer personal details in the family’s lifestyle, along with news of close friends and the community and glimpses of such numbers as Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and Mayor Marion Barry. In addition they touch eloquently on problems of social justice, politics, and history, as when Mrs. Jackson recalls growing up in Jim Crow Florida, and they reflect the characteristics, instilled by her own mother, that produced her a role model for a lot of her life.

Eventually, these letters offer a blueprint for why we must support our households not just because they elevate but when they fall. This collection is definitely Mrs. Jackson’s contribution to healing during a period when our prisons are full and our communities are suffering. She supplies the road map for ensuring that the individuals offering sentences understand that prison is definitely where they are, not really who they are as well as for helping them maintain the courage to maintain hope alive.