Tiechie Fenton of the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services spreads awareness of the “critical need” for foster parents in Mississippi.
Craig Griffing donated $30,000 to Pearl River Community College to establish the Griffing Family Tech Scholarship, which supports a number of career and technical education programs at the school.
The Forrest County Campus of Pearl River Community College offers several wraparound services, such as food pantries and clothes closets, that aid students who may be struggling financially.
Brenda Myers took the first steps toward establishing Entrepreneurs Academy 101 in January 2022 by using a program called Teachable to create online entrepreneurship courses and to launch her own website.
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.
The Social Action Committee of the Jackson (MS) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is using public forums to bring community voices together on issues that affect Mississippians. The forums have focused on topics like health equity, redistricting, voter suppression, supporting gender equality and educational disparities and inequalities.
Getty Images selected Jackson State University as one of four recipients of the Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for HBCUs program to amplify the visual history of historic Black colleges and universities.
Dr. Hilliard Lackey, a long-time professor at JSU, has paved a path for students from his own hometown to attend the historically Black college in west Jackson. In the years since, the Lackey Scholarship has gone to students ranked as low as eighth in the class, as well as to the highest-ranked student (other than the valedictorian and salutatorian) who has chosen to attend JSU.
The school in rural Rankin County can hold up to 250 students, and it is hoping to fill those spots with their “Black American Values in Action: A Virtual Fundraiser for The Piney Woods School” on Sept. 30 at 7 pm.
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