"two lakes" | Search | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

All results / Stories / Joe Atkins

Tease photo

Song for Charlie

We went to see one of jazz's great bassists, Charlie Haden, and his Quartet West. Rachel and Michael had never heard of him and had no interest in jazz, but …

Tease photo Politics

Cochran, McDaniel: Bourbon vs. Populist, Again

The parallels between the Populist movement of the 1890s and today's Tea Party are striking, even though crucial differences also exist.

Tease photo

When You’re Down and Out

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who rode into the Governor's Mansion decrying the evils of undocumented migrant workers, says he also doesn't want "unions involved in our businesses or our public …

Tease photo

The Immorality of Incarceration

Mariachi guitarist Johnny Mora's bout with drugs was years in his past, but the legacy of jail time it led to is as much a companion as his guitar when …

Tease photo

Last of the Letter Writers

Sandy Margolis, the last of the letter writers, died at age 74 two years ago this September.

Tease photo Business

‘All About the Food’

‘To want to open a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction.’

Tease photo

Smiling in Heaven

My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.

Tease photo

By the Handful

Fannie Lou Hamer, a folk philosopher of the Civil Rights Movement, knew what she was up against in a state and region where an entrenched hard-right oligarchy ruled at the …

Tease photo

Not Saying We’re Perfect

Bluesman Bill "Howl-N-Madd" Perry isn't really howling mad.

Tease photo

City of the Dead

Memphis in 1878 became a city of the dead—people hiding behind shuttered windows and locked doors, the clickety-clack of wagons carrying the corpses to waiting gravediggers.

Tease photo

Attention Walmart Shoppers

Walmart's "chintzy" attitude toward the wages and benefits of its workers isn't news. What may be news to many, however, is just how bad it is for workers at Walmart …

Tease photo Music

The Dark Side

It was decades ago, but I'll never forget that night. I'm glad I wrote the details down in a journal.

Tease photo Business

Battle to Unionize Nissan

CANTON – Michael Carter hardly evokes the Hollywood image of a podium-pounding, fire-breathing labor agitator.

Tease photo Politics

Turning Back the Clock

J. K. Morrison will turn over in his grave on July 1.

Tease photo Film

Not So Young Guns

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss.—I'm staring into the face of Marshal Wyatt Earp. It's not exactly as I remember him back when I was a 10-year-old would-be cowboy and Wyatt was on …

Education

[Atkins] Modern-Day Servitude

I was a lowly intern at a major newspaper up north, sitting at my desk in a corner plotting my day when a small, elderly, bespectacled man walked past me …

Next