Opinion | Validation v. Compliments: Learning to Appreciate Self and Others
Shanina Carmichael writes about learning the difference between validation and compliments, along with the importance of self-affirmation.
Shanina Carmichael writes about learning the difference between validation and compliments, along with the importance of self-affirmation.
Visit Jackson has organized a week-long series of themed events named JXN Restaurant Week to highlight Jackson’s culinary Landscape.
We may be a Mississippi-based news publication, but Trump’s comments about encouraging Russia to attack NATO allies merited our attention too.
Laurel, Miss., native Kendria Bland has amassed more than 1 million followers on TikTok through her creative comedy skits.
Under the moniker Shuniiadaballer, Shuniaa Wrenn of Clarksdale, Miss., has garnered millions of views on her freestyle-rap videos and will soon debut an album.
Teens, parents and mental-health professionals from across Mississippi gathered at the Teen Suicide Summit to discuss topics like suicide prevention, signs of mental illness, safe spaces for youth and the potential harms of teens using social media.
“Systematic desensitization involves routine exposure to emotional stimuli, such as fear or excitement,” Hart Jefferson writes. “Over time, the responses to these stimuli will become weaker as the brain adapts.”
“In Musk’s quest to create what he says will become an app that ‘does everything,’ I believe that his X rebrand took Twitter one more step toward being good for hardly anything,” Matthew Pittman writes.
Gov. Tate Reeves suggested that the “Chinese Communist Party” may use TikTok to steal the state’s government data, a choice of words that raised writer Emily Suh’s suspicions around the motives behind Mississippi’s TikTok ban.
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