Dr. Ivory Phillips is a contributing editor at The Jackson Advocate. Phillips was born in Rosedale, Miss., in the Summer of ‘42. He attended and graduated from what was then Rosedale Negro High School in 1960. He then went to Jackson State University on an academic scholarship and graduated in 1964 with a B.S. in Social Science Education. After years of teaching and graduate studies, Phillips returned to JSU in the Fall of 1971, got married, raised a family and spent the next 44 years teaching social sciences there. He also served as Chairman of the Department of Social Science Education, Faculty Senate President, and Dean of the College of Education and Human Development. In addition to the work on the campus, Phillips became involved in numerous community activities: editorial writing for the Jackson Advocate, consulting on the Ayers higher education discrimination case, coaching youth soccer teams, working on political campaigns, and supporting Black liberation struggles, including the Republic of New Africa, the All-Peoples Revolutionary Party, Mississippi Alliance of State Employees, and the development of a Black Community Political Convention. In his spare time, Phillips loves listening to Black music, playing with his grandchildren, making others laugh, and being helpful to others.