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Li Ann Sanchez, a Mexican and Indigenous trans woman, was the guest of honor at the Immigrants Alliance for Justice and Equity “Queerceañera,” an LGBTQ reclamation of a traditional Latin quinceañera.
Rob Cooper, a Jackson-based stained-glass artist, received a commission from award-winning British novelist and comic-book writer Neil Gaiman to create a window for the latter’s London home.
Brianna McField is the founder of Brianna Enterprises, where she uses anecdotes of her life experiences to empower, educate and encourage those she encounters in everyday life.
ACLU staff attorney McKenna Raney-Gray looked into other organizations’ LGBTQ-based programs to find what niches ACLU Mississsippi’s LGBTQ Justice Project could fill.
Calvin Hawkins has researched Black history in Yalobusha County for the last six years, and he is releasing a book entitled “Under the Dusty Sand” that contains much of his research.
Andy Dorian, JD Bass and Warren Beebe formed Lady Gun in 2020, the passion project of three creative musicians, fostered in the crucible of the pandemic.
Dorothy Moore was close to quitting music after 56 years in the business, but the love she received at the May 25, 2022, marker ceremony in Jackson, Miss., changed her mind.
Juneteenth commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
M.R. Hackman initially founded Sherman Creek Grocery as a country store in 1933. Currently, Dottie Wheeler runs the store.
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