The Life of Doc

The Life of Doc is a documentary telling the untold American history of one of the Greatest minds in history. The Reverend Dr. Joseph D. Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 16, 1929. had amassed eight degrees before his untimely death on July 19, 2008. As the first black resident of Emory University's Department of Psychiatry, he discovered that having high self-esteem was the single most important aspect of an individual's well-being. Armed with his new-found knowledge, Dr. Jackson joined forces with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and set out to create a slogan that would uplift the social consciousness of African Americans. Dr. Jackson is credited with creating the slogan "Black is beautiful and it is so beautiful to be black."