Brandon Simmons first fished at the Sardis Lake during a summer camp when he was 13, but now he returns weekly to fish the dam as well as meet and converse with other fishermen.
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.
Lladi Ambrocio-Garcia was among the 680 people arrested in August 2019 following raids on seven poultry plants in Mississippi, including at Koch Foods in Morton, Miss., where she had worked as a chicken cutter for some months.
Recently, Pearl River Community College graduate Hanna Lambert received the chance to further pursue her childhood dream of opening her own veterinary practice when she became a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
“I’m announcing today that the Mississippi Journalism and Education Group, the 501(c)(3) that has operated the Mississippi Free Press officially since November 2021—before that the Community Foundation for Mississippi was our fiscal sponsor, and we maintain a fund there—has acquired the journalism assets, archives and intellectual property of the Jackson Free Press.”
“9 to 5, The Musical” premiered in Los Angeles in 2008, opened on Broadway the following year, and has since earned nominations for 15 Drama Desk Awards and four Tony Awards.
More than 30 volunteers from several different organizations attended JSU’s Office of Community Engagement annual Spring Planting Day in March 2022.
The Ruthless Ryderz round-up club and a handful of others sponsor the Southern Soul Black Invitational Rodeo, which Black riders own and operate.
David Dennis Jr., who grew up in Jackson, Miss., is living into his father’s example today, though in a manner better suited to the internet age and his formidable skills as a writer.
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