Prize-winning photojournalist on homelessness, friendship with former NFL star at Oct. 5 Headliners Book Rap

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ted Jackson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune plans to discuss  his book You Ought To Do A Story About Me at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap on Monday, Oct. 5, at 1 p.m.

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The book chronicles the growth of Jackson's friendship with a drug-addicted former NFL star whom he first encountered sleeping under a bridge in New Orleans in 1990. After taking the photograph, Jackson woke the man to get his name. "You ought to do a story on me," the man told Jackson. When Jackson asked why, the man said, "Because I've played in three Super Bowls." That encounter began Jackson's 30-year relationship with Jackie Wallace and forms the backdrop of the book's look at homelessness, poverty, drug addiction and systemic racism.

Jackson was part of teams at the Times-Picayune that won a 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. His work has appeared in numerous publications and he has been interviewed on many national networks.