There’s a long lineage of Black male doctors on television. Timothy Brown played combat zone trauma surgeon Dr. Oliver Harmon Jones in 1970s war comedy M*A*S*H*. One of Denzel Washington’s first roles ...
“There’s more than one avenue for success for young Black men on TV,” Jackson says. “I feel like we’re portrayed one way a lot of the time so I love that I get to show something different.” It’s a ...