South Jackson Welcomes Money-for-Plasma Operation as Experts Warn About Poverty Links
The ImmunoTek Plasma Center in South Jackson now occupies the building that the Super D drug store vacated in 1998, citing a lack of business.
Octavia E. Butler Mined Her Boundless Curiosity, Forging A New Vision For Humanity
A pioneering writer in a genre long dominated by white men, Octavia E. Butler’s work explored power structures, shifting definitions of humanity and alternative societies. In an interview, English language and literature professor Alyssa Collins explains how Butler’s boundless curiosity inspired the author’s work, and how Butler’s experiences as a Black woman drew her to “humans who must deal with the edges or ends of humanity.”
