Opinion | From School Closures to Renaissance: HBCUs Can Empower Jackson’s Black Middle Class
Mississippi’s HBCUs can empower Jackson’s Black middle class and help build a “resurgent Jackson” amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
Mississippi’s HBCUs can empower Jackson’s Black middle class and help build a “resurgent Jackson” amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
A Black middle class should return to Jackson and build identity-affirming charter schools amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
JPS must produce a plan that supports the scholars and families surrounding school closures, Sean Brown writes.
Visit Jackson revealed a new project aimed at revitalizing and beautifying the Jackson Downtown Convention and Central Business Districts during a press conference on Monday, Sept. 25.
Target’s recent Pride merchandise campaign could be harmful to children and may have run afoul of legal obligations, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch claims.
Li Ann Sanchez, a Mexican and Indigenous trans woman, was the guest of honor at the Immigrants Alliance for Justice and Equity “Queerceañera,” an LGBTQ reclamation of a traditional Latin quinceañera.
Sam Cooke. W. C. Handy. Marty Stuart. Alice Walker. Ida B. Wells. These five superstars in their fields—musical performance and business, writing, journalism, Black activism—are the latest Mississippians inducted into the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience Hall of Fame. They join the ranks of Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones, Sela Ward and 25 other Mississippi artists The MAX, as it is commonly known, has honored.
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