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Madison, Miss., resident Bill Murphy discovered a talent for the saxophone during middle school and fostered his musicianship into a decades-spanning career in the industry.
Brooke Floyd learned of the National Organizing Fellowship she completed this year through People’s Advocacy Institute Executive Director Rukia Lumumba, who encouraged the Jackson, Miss., native to apply.
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.
Jayden Woullard, a rising senior at Murrah High School in Jackson, said she was mid-shift at Whataburger when Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of
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