Award-winning Mahalia Jackson film comes to Hulu
Columbus Short and Ledisi as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson in Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story. (Photo by Ron T. Young)
A new movie about legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is now streaming on Hulu.
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story stars Grammy Award-winning jazz and R&B artist Ledisi and covers five decades of Jackson’s life—highlighting both her personal faith and her more public role in the civil rights movement.
Jackson, who would go on to perform at Carnegie Hall, President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, first started singing at a Baptist church in New Orleans. She began receiving critical acclaim after moving to Chicago in 1928 and performing as a soloist at Greater Salem Baptist Church.
