"I didn't really have an interest in trying to make him a character," Cleage says, "because he already was a great, big, larger-than-life character."
"She's invoking us to feel what they felt back then," says director Seema Sueko. "This is a piece and a story that has the potential to transform our hearts and remind us of...what it would mean to build a just community and work toward that."
"I don't remember there being a time when there was no Pearl Cleage in my life," says Jackson's daughter Beth Hodges. "...she always felt like family to me."
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