The Southern AIDS Coalition partnered with Jackson’s Care4Me Services to host its CDC Listening Tour in the capital city to talk about the epidemic.
Nick Wallace has earned many accolades throughout his career, with the Small Business Association recently naming the Jacksonian chef the title of 2023 Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year.
The Crown and Glory Beauty Expo in Jackson celebrated natural hair and Black beauty while educating people about the C.R.O.W.N. Act and its potential to protect against hair discrimination.
Preserving heritage and cultural pride are driving forces for Gloria Gipson Suggs’ visual art.
“Ikeisha Baker, come on down!” the voice of announcer George Gray called out. “You’re the next contestant on ‘The Price is Right!’”
Ridgeland-based life coach and counselor Karen Bonner said the pandemic negatively affected many people’s mental health in part because it exposed that modern society has at least a degree of fragility.
The Southern Opportunity and Resilience Fund, known as SOAR, launched in April 2021 to offer low-interest loans of up to $100,000 to small-business owners affected by the pandemic across the South.
Warn Wilson Jr. wrote and illustrated “Brown Money” in 2019 as a way of introducing children to STEM subjects, economics and possible career paths they may had not known about previously.
No placard encapsulating what lies ahead greets visitors at the entrance of “From Couture to da’ Streets,” a fashion exhibit at the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience in Meridian. The exhibit celebrates Patrick Kelly and TJ Walker, Black fashion designers from some of the most rural parts of Mississippi who honed their creativity to craft unique clothing lines despite challenges they faced in the field as African Americans.
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