Morehouse Graduate Stevie Jackson Takes Home a Sports Emmy for Capturing the Soul of Campus Boxing Club
Morehouse student Stevie Jackson wins a Sports Emmy for his boxing club documentary and donates his $25K prize back to the team. The post Morehouse Graduate Stevie Jackson Takes Home a Sports Emmy for Capturing the Soul of Campus Boxing Club appeared first on The Quintessential Gentleman.
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At the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Sports Emmy Awards in New York City, Morehouse College ’26 graduate Stevie Jackson took the stage to accept a Sports Emmy Award and first-place honors for his groundbreaking documentary, Before the Bell.
Hosted by comedian and HBCU ambassador Roy Wood Jr., the star-studded ceremony recognized Jackson’s work with the prestigious $25,000 Coca-Cola HBCU Sports Production Grant.
Before the Bell isn’t your typical sports documentary highlight reel. The film dives deep into the heart of the Morehouse Boxing Club, telling its story through the eyes of its founder, Jacoby Bell, and the student-athletes who train there.
Rather than focusing on wins and losses in the ring, Jackson’s film shifts the lens to examine complex, crucial themes affecting young Black men today, including mental health, discipline, resilience, and brotherhood. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences praised the work on social media, calling it “bold, intentional and impossible to ignore,” and cementing it as the blueprint for the next generation of sports storytelling.
Jackson independently wrote, directed, shot, and edited the entire project under his emerging creative media company, AKSHN. He worked closely alongside a team of fellow graduates and club members, including Ian Chamberlin, Makai Brown, Mateo McIntosh, and Salahuddin Saafir.
Reflecting on his approach, Jackson noted that intentional listening made all the difference.
“After previously competing in the fellowship program, I returned with a very different creative approach,” Jackson shared. “Instead of attempting to force a predetermined storyline, I spent time listening carefully to the lived experiences of Jacoby Bell and members of the Morehouse Boxing Club.”
This collaborative style allowed the narrative to emerge naturally from real conversations, workouts, and struggles, resulting in an incredibly raw portrait of personal transformation.
While a Sports Emmy win is a big career milestone on its own, Jackson made sure the victory extended beyond himself. Onstage in New York, he announced that the entirety of the $25,000 Coca-Cola production grant would be funneled right back into the Morehouse Boxing Club.
The program currently operates without a dedicated training facility on campus. Jackson’s prize money will serve as critical seed funding to help the club secure a permanent practice space for future student-athletes.
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