Person of the Day | Sissy Hudson: Two-Time New York City Marathon Runner
Vicksburg, Miss., native Sissy Hudson has competed in the New York City Marathon two separate times in 2022 and 2023.
Vicksburg, Miss., native Sissy Hudson has competed in the New York City Marathon two separate times in 2022 and 2023.
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.
Oresa Napper-Williams is the founder of Not Another Child, a nonprofit organization that she founded after her son, Andrell Daron Napper, was killed by gun violence in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2007. One mission of her work is to ensure that parents who lost children to violence are treated with respect and dignity, and get the resources they need. She both collaborates with NYPD on violence prevention and is frank about problems within policing, including respect for Black community members.
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
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