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Ashley Jackson is an actress, screenwriter, producer, and recording artist. She is known for starring in the Netflix film BEATS as Niyah, alongside Anthony Anderson, Uzo Aduba, and Khalil Everage. Her most recent feature film debut, a Sony Pictures, MACRO Entertainment collaboration, "BLAST BEAT," premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. At age fifteen, Jackson became a protégé of veteran actor Richard Lawson and has appeared in numerous film and television projects in the years since. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jackson accepted an Apprentice for Freeform & ONYX Collective position in the first inaugural Disney General Entertainment Content Apprenticeship Program.
Jackson is the youngest daughter of American political activist Jesse Jackson and author and intellectual Karin Stanford; sister of American politician Jesse Jackson Jr.; and niece of renowned songwriter Charles "Chuck" Jackson. Her interests in gender equality, education, and civil rights, paired with her upbringing influenced by her politically active parents, inform her most-recent writings and acquisitions.
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- Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at California State University
Dr. Karin Stanford is a Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and producer. Before joining the faculty at CSUN in 2003, where she served as Chair of the Pan African Studies Department and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities in subsequent years, Dr. Stanford served as a faculty member in Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. Dr. Stanford's teaching areas are African American Politics, Social Movements, Hip Hop Politics, and Public Policy.
Dr. Stanford has received several awards and recognition for her publications, including: a 2003 NAACP Image Award nomination for her co-authored book with Ollie Johnson III, Ph.D., Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award in 2009 for If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace. Her article "Keepin' it Real in Hip Hop Politics: A Political Perspective of Tupac Shakur," has remained one of the most-read articles since its debut in 2011. And earlier in her career, her 1997 publication Beyond the Boundaries: Reverend Jesse Jackson in International Affairs won the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Outstanding Book Award in 1998.