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Tweet-off to skate-off: Media Twitter Queens Donna Ladd (@donnerkay and @jxnfreepress) of the JFP and Dawn Dugle of 16 WAPT News (@mswrite1 and @16waptnews) will skate off Saturday a.m. to benefit domestic violence!

Clinton National Guard Armory
1500 E. Northside Dr.
Clinton, MS 39056

Carnival games, face painting, food, music, & more! Don’t miss this fun community event! The Vixens will go head to head against the Biloxi Roller Derby at 1pm. Local news media, WAPT Channel 16 & the Jackson Free Press will also take their beef to the track as they go mano a mano to decide who is the best twitterer after all! A portion of the proceeds will go to the JFP Chick Ball and the Domestic Violence Intervention Center.

Entrance fee for Scrimmage and SkateOff is $5 or 5 carnival tickets.

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Watch “Rollerball” (the 1975 version) before you go. Then you will know what to do.

#148276 | Author: Doctor S | Date: May 30 2009

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.