Sally Slavinski, 36, slides into a chair in Hal & Mal’s 30 minutes before we open. She apologizes for being late, explaining that she just ran 11 miles in training for the Mardi Gras half-marathon on Feb. 16. Dressed in a gray Berkeley zip-up sweatshirt over gray sweatpants with a New Zealand All Blacks rugby cap over her straw-blond hair, she opens a container of strawberry Dannon yogurt and sips from an Aquafina bottled water. It would take 20 pages to list all that she’s done in her short life, starting with a childhood in Long Island, N.Y., a biology degree from Michigan State, working summers in Yellowstone, veterinary school, working with the Heifer Project in Uganda, practicing small-animal medicine in Ohio, working with the World Health Organization for three months in India, working in Martha’s Vineyard and acquiring a degree in public health from Berkeley. But what does she do now?
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JACKSONIAN: Ken Stiggers
by J. Bingo HolmanPhoto by Charles A. Smith
“It’s like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get,” quotes Ken Stiggers, 41, of the City of Jackson's Public Education Government network studio (formerly officially called Public Access, and still referred to that way casually). He runs the local studio almost singlehandedly. “I wear 87 hats,” he says with a deep Barry White-like “heh-heh-heh.” Standing in the cramped base of operations of the studio, with videos lining the white concrete walls, he wears a black turtleneck sweater, dark jeans, brown leather shoes and a bomber jacket—a slick outfit that matches his build perfectly, if not his demeanor.
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Jack Stevens
Jack Stevens greets me at the door of his Belhaven Heights triplex from the comfort of his wheelchair, a result of an unfortunate accident three years ago that keeps him for the most part immobile. A cloud of faded red hair surrounds his round bespectacled face. At 52 he’s led an active, theatrical life in his hometown of Jackson. Growing up he attended “Power, Bailey and Murrah,” and in his effervescent way, he makes them sound like the holy trinity of schools. He started acting while at Murrah and went on to graduate from Ole Miss in 1972 with a major in theater and a minor in English and history. He tried out for Yale’s renowned theater department three times and was second alternate twice.by Dr. S on 01/13/03 at 02:43 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Blythe Daigle
Blythe Daigle doesn't look like your stereotypical activist. Dressed conservatively in a gray turtleneck, blue jeans and black clunky shoes, she resembles the other inhabitants of her Belhaven apartment complex. But, unlike most people who are only three years out of college, Daigle, a Louisiana native, has already completed a two-year stint in Paraguay as a Peace Corps volunteer.Why would a beautiful 26-year-old woman, with a halo of brunette ringlets befitting a Bronte character, want to spend time in a foreign country where the language is an ancient tongue called Guarani and houses are typically made of mud and straw? “I knew I wanted to give something back,” she says simply. She likes to talk of how we as Americans have no idea how blessed we are.
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Bill Minor
Photo by Charles A. Smith
Bill Minor is proof that the best way to keep a muscle fit is to exercise it. Rigorously. When I arrived at his Broadmoor home the Friday after Thanksgiving, the brain of this 80-year-old journalist and columnist immediately started churning, and for the next two hours, he exploded with facts, details and opinions and quirkobilia. I didn't need to ask a single question of the man who has made a career out of asking questions in the state of Mississippi.
The Hammond, La., native came to Jackson to work as a correspondent for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune in 1947. His first assignment, and one of his most memorable, was the funeral of legendary racist politician Theodore G. Bilbo in Poplarville. “That was some introduction to Mississippi politics,” says Minor, who still writes a weekly column and runs an active newsgathering business from his home on Brecon Ave.
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Bill Minor is proof that the best way to keep a muscle fit is to exercise it. Rigorously. When I arrived at his Broadmoor home the Friday after Thanksgiving, the brain of this 80-year-old journalist and columnist immediately started churning, and for the next two hours, he exploded with facts, details and opinions and quirkobilia. I didn't need to ask a single question of the man who has made a career out of asking questions in the state of Mississippi.The Hammond, La., native came to Jackson to work as a correspondent for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune in 1947. His first assignment, and one of his most memorable, was the funeral of legendary racist politician Theodore G. Bilbo in Poplarville. “That was some introduction to Mississippi politics,” says Minor, who still writes a weekly column and runs an active newsgathering business from his home on Brecon Ave.
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Carolyn Renee Morris
Carolyn Morris—the storyteller, singer, songwriter, connector—is the product of the two strong women who raised her. The 40-year-old South Jacksonian was born in the University Medical Center in 1962 and then bounced back and forth between her feminist mother, Tahira'h Abubakr, and her more traditional grandmother, Gussie Seals. Abubakr raised Morris in New York City and Indianapolis to be politically aware and determined and independent. She visited Miss Gussie, a former sharecropper, back here in Pocahontas and learned the feminine arts. “Otherwise, I’d never have put on a dress,” Morris says, laughing softly as she nibbles at a tofu burrito outside High Noon Café.
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Rob McDuff
Photo by Jaro VacekRobert B. McDuff, 46, looks too rumpled and carefree to be about to argue the Democrats’ congressional redistricting case before the U.S. Supreme Court in December. But, a cursory look around the Jackson attorney’s office—in a slightly crumbling North Congress house with crooked steps and peeling gray paint—reveals that he’s about more than power. He wants to make a difference.
Witness the “Poverty” symposium posters leaning against the wall, the photos of McDuff with Presidents Carter and Clinton (two with the latter) and the filing from Branch v. Mississippi Republican Executive Committee lying on top of his desk.
by ladd on 10/31/02 at 12:00 PM Comments (1) -- Read More...
Keke Lowe
Photo by Charles A. Smith
September 22, 2002
Marquise "Keke" Lowe has lived in Jackson his whole 19-year-old life. Lowe, a slim teenager with amused chestnut eyes and a small, sculpted face, grew up in Shady Oaks, attended Bailey Magnet High School and now…
by ladd on 09/22/02 at 02:19 PM Comments (2) -- Read More...
September 22, 2002
Marquise "Keke" Lowe has lived in Jackson his whole 19-year-old life. Lowe, a slim teenager with amused chestnut eyes and a small, sculpted face, grew up in Shady Oaks, attended Bailey Magnet High School and now…
by ladd on 09/22/02 at 02:19 PM Comments (2) -- Read More...
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Nov 20, 2009[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Izzy: it's not enough to just study something - at some point you have to act. Systematic exclusion can be read as…
Nov 20, 2009
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: Wintrhop, your last sentence "I don't want a small and manageable God. I prefer one that I can't fully understand." bears…
Nov 20, 2009
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: Funny you should mention the gender issue of a deity. I was at lunch with a St. Andrews priest one…
Nov 20, 2009
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Izzy: I wouldn't be too sure your church doesn't preach hate if your liturgy is not gender-inclusive. Think about it - is…
Nov 20, 2009
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
baquan2000: Goldenae - you pointed out a key element in your post, "the point is that he would even suggest…
Nov 20, 2009
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
amoderatemississippian: check out the following link:
http://www.oxfordeagle.com/news2.html
It does appear, by the article written today,…
Nov 20, 2009
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: WMartin - At the church I attend, St. Andrew's Cathedral, there is no teaching or preaching about hate (unless you…
Nov 20, 2009
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: A fail-safe principle I've always sworn by: If the Kluckers agree with me about something, I need to rethink it.
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[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Goldenae: I would truly be ashamed of myself if I looked at life and others the way the some people do. Some…
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Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Goldenae: Why is it so hard to understand that regardless of what we would like to think, there are different…