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Michael Dier (left) and Catherine Willis (right)

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Best of Jackson: Home Improvement

When you need help in dealing with a house problem, it's best to call a professional. That's where Best of Jackson: Home Improvement can help. Here are this year's winners …

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Times They Are a Changin’ at the JFP

Let's jump right to it—we're announcing exciting changes with this issue. We've been planning for months how we will best serve the reader, how we serve local businesses and help …

JFP Magazine will focus on great storytelling, such as Donna Ladd’s long-form story this issue …

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Todd Stauffer

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Dowell Taylor

Belzoni native Dowell Taylor, 64, is once again the director of bands for Jackson State University and an inductee to the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame.

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Jackson filmmaker and novelist Maximus Wright premiered his short film, "My Name Is Lola," on …

• June 27, 2018

(Left to right) Caleb Kinnard, 19, took a photo with classmate Akeem Knight and teacher …

• June 27, 2018

OPINION: Fighting a System That Was Not Made for Them

The national and even statewide conversation around gun violence and youth circulates around white students in suburban settings. Only when well-to-do white children die at the hands of gun violence …

Olivia Coté

• June 27, 2018

Last-Hour Jobs for Youth?

Tensions ran high at the third Jackson City Council meeting in a week during discussions about funding for the Mayor's Youth Initiative Summer Youth Employment Program that is supposed to …

Funding for the Mayor’s Youth Initiative Summer Youth Employment Program is coming from unspent Department …

• June 27, 2018

DA Smith on Police Shootings, Being a Victim

For the better part of last week's officer-identification task-force meeting at the Jackson Municipal Art Gallery, some of the members didn't know they had a prominent guest.

On June 18, 2018, Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith spoke to Jackson’s officer-ID …

• June 27, 2018

Judge: Separated Families Must be Reunited Within 30 Days

A judge in California on Tuesday ordered U.S. border authorities to reunite separated families within 30 days, setting a hard deadline in a process that has so far yielded uncertainty …

A judge in California on Tuesday ordered U.S. border authorities to reunite separated families within …

• June 27, 2018

Brotherhood of Destruction: An Addiction-Fueled Journey to Hell and Back

Benny Ivey met former Vice Lord and prominent drug dealer John Knight at a June people’s assembly at New Horizon Church on Ellis Avenue, and the two bonded as they …

Benny Ivey, right, met former Vice Lord and prominent drug dealer John Knight (left) at …

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