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This story originally appeared in the Jackson Free Press. It was added to the Mississippi Free Press website in 2025.
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Courtesy Jacqueline Ulmer

Name: Jacqueline Ulmer

Location: Gentlemen Image Barber Gallery

Lives in: Jackson

Favorite Spot: Gentlemen Image Barber Gallery

Grew Up in: Chicago

JFP Reader Since: This year

A recent favorite article: “I would like to commend Melisha Grayson on her article Making Our Children Whole. I read it to the entire staff here at Gentlemen Image and so began a two-hour conversation!”

Favorite Show: “Law and Order”

Favorite Quote: “Each one, teach one.”

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.