Jackson Free Press

‘Why Can’t I Break That Barrier?’: The JFP Interview with AG Hopeful Jennifer Riley Collins

During our afternoon interview with Jennifer Riley Collins in downtown Jackson, she explained why she believes she is up to the momentous task of becoming the first African American woman …

Ahead of the 2017 union election, Nissan told workers that joining the United Auto Workers …

• March 20, 2019

OPINION: Lessons to Learn From Nissan

Unless workers unionize, companies operate as dictatorships, where the businesses will sacrifice workers' livelihoods, pantries, mortgages, car payments, medical bills and other needs for the bottom line.

Daniella Dismuke-Rojas, a volunteer with Planned Parenthood Southeast, traveled from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to …

• March 20, 2019

Legislative Update: Fetal Heartbeats, Teacher Pay, Tort Reform

Daniella Dismuke-Roja is an activist who is challenging laws that she believes threaten the rights of Mississippians. On March 14, she traveled to Jackson and joined a group of Democratic …

Mississippi Rep. Alyce Clarke (wearing an olive suit), D-Hinds, joined other pro-Roe v. Wade legislators …

• March 20, 2019

More than half of the businesses at the District at Eastover’s Cultivation Food Hall in …

• March 20, 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE: Women, Don’t Apologize

As women, we need less criticism and more support. We need people who will step up and remind us of all that we've accomplished.

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• March 20, 2019

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• March 20, 2019

John Spann

When Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Curator of Education John Spann was in high school, history came easy to him. "It wasn't like geometry or anything, and I got it," he …

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant promises he will sign the bill , which will give Mississippi …

• March 19, 2019

Mississippi Senate OKs Ban on Abortion After Fetal Heartbeat

Mississippi senators on Tuesday passed the final version of a bill that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy.

Chef Derek Emerson is the co-owner of Walker's Drive-In and is also an owner/operator at …

• March 19, 2019

Changes Coming to Seafood R'evolution

The restaurant group of Derek and Jennifer Emerson will take ownership of Seafood R'evolution on March 31 and reopen the restaurant as CAET.

At a press conference at Westside Daycare on March 18, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba announced …

• March 19, 2019

City to Launch Pre-K Pilot Program With Grant From the Kellogg Foundation

Mayor Chokwe Lumumba announced on March 18 that the City is receiving grant funds from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a pre-k pilot program dubbed Ready To Learn.

Gulf Seafood Outlet keeps at least eight varieties of restaurant-quality seafood in stock at a …

• March 19, 2019

UMMC/FirstNet Partnership, Gulf Seafood Outlet and Vitality Bowls

Greg Adams, a former conductor for the Canadian National Railroad who retired in 2016, opened his own seafood market, Gulf Seafood Outlet, in Jackson in September 2018.

In overturning Flowers' third conviction, the Mississippi Supreme Court called Evans' exclusion of 15 black …

• March 19, 2019