David Jackson’s Legacy of Love

H. Michael Harvey, JD
6 min readJun 27, 2022

Built One Dollar at a Time

Redan High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia honors the legacy of David Jackson. Photo © 2022 Harold Michael Harvey

One day during the summer of 2017, I drove out to the Georgia State University Baseball Complex. A friend had told me about Mentoring Viable Prospects (MVP), an enormously popular baseball tournament serving primarily Black high school baseball players that had been in existence since the turn of the century. Teams traveled from Virginia, Florida, Texas, Chicago, California, and…

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H. Michael Harvey, JD

Harvey is Living Now Book Awards 2020 Bronze Medalist for his memoir Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir on the Craft of Resistance. Available at haroldmichaelharvey.com