Background
Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children, but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Senior, and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved.
Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children, but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Senior, and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved.
University of Chicago. Northwestern University.
In Latin American and Caribbean studies. She joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp, and was editor of the journal Nommo. Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.