07/16/2026
Introducing FÉLIX Magazine's national cover:
J. BERNARD CALLOWAY
There is a kind of strength that does not announce itself. It does not crowd the room or mistake dominance for power. It steadies. It listens. It holds.
In Holding the Center, FÉLIX sits with the actor behind Terry Carson on The Ms. Pat Show for a portrait of fatherhood, faith, discipline, and the emotional intelligence required to make a man feel fully human on screen.
From Fort Lauderdale church rooms to Broadway, from football fields to television sets, Calloway’s story is shaped by patience, sacrifice, humor, and the belief that presence can be its own form of grace.
As Terry Carson, he offers something still too rare on television: a Black father written with warmth, interior life, tenderness, frustration, humor, and quiet authority. Not an idea of fatherhood. Not a symbol. A man.
Read the full feature online HERE:
https://felixmag.co/2026/06/15/holding-the-center-j-bernard-calloway-on-fatherhood-family-and-the-quiet-strength-of-terry-carson/
Talent: J. Bernard Calloway —
Writer: Alexandra Evans
Senior Editor: Emily Chu
Photography: Justin Patterson —
Photo Retoucher: Brianna Kish —
Fashion Stylist: Kristopher Fraser —
Grooming: Andrea Fairweather —
Publicist: Katrina Boswell —
