On Nov. 15, 2017, Jackson Public Schools students attended the 2017 Career Expo at the Jackson Convention Complex.
During the 2017 Career Expo Nov. 15, 2017, at the Jackson Convention Complex, Jackson Public Schools students engaged in hands-on activities with businesses and organizations who represented a number of different career fields.
Students of Jackson Public Schools get an up close look at one of Jackson’s fire department trucks on Nov. 15, 2017, during the 2017 Career Expo at the Jackson Convention Complex.
Students of Wingfield and Lanier high school play a game of tug of war at the 2017 Career Expo on Nov. 15, 2017, at the Jackson Convention Complex.
The Jackson State University Sonic Boom Marching Band plays during the 2017 Career Expo on Nov. 15, 2017, at the Jackson Convention Complex.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.