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An award-winning columnist for the Op-Ed section, Jackson was a 2001 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. He also is known for his nature photography, and his images of Barack Obama have been exhibited by Boston's Museum of African American History.
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Derrick Z. Jackson
An environmental chain reaction
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist
New research into mercury pollution shows that the toxin is more widespread that previously thought and is being found in more bird species.
DERRICK Z. JACKSON
Speaking in the forked tongue of racial codes
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist
There is a lot that black people could tell Mitt Romney about the importance of being judged on your merits — because African-American merit was crushed for hundreds of years.
Derrick Z. Jackson can be reached at jackson@globe.com.
The Black Hole of Sports
By Derrick Z. Jackson,
“You see all those brown little things?” Ann McKee asked me as I looked through a microscope. I was viewing a slide sample of the brain of Dave Duerson, the Notre Dame All-American defensive back who won Super Bowls with the 1985 Chicago Bears and the 1990 New York Giants. Duerson was a Notre Dame trustee, a National Football League Man of the Year for community service and an economics major who completed a management program at Harvard Business School. Early in his football retirement, he nearly tripled the annual sales of a meat supply company to $63.5 million.
Derrick Z. Jackson
The black hole of sports
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist
The donated brains of deceased former athletes are revealing the dangerous effects concussions take, even as we cheer on the gladiators of the gridiron.