text: He performed in Albany, GA on April 21, 2018, at a Soul Music festival along with the 69 boys and various other performers.In August 2019, it was announced that Jackson would perform later that month as the headlining act of the 37th annual African World Festival, hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. In 2019, Jackson released the single "A Million Ways". A fiction piece in the November 25, 2019, issue of The New Yorker, by John Edgar Wideman, titled "Arizona", is written as a letter to Jackson. Controversy
  In August 1988, the British music magazine NME reported that Jackson had verbally attacked George Michael in the Los Angeles Times over his black music chart success. 