Jackson Free Press

Midtown Celebration

Since Midfest's start in 2014, the street festival and block party has been focused on celebrating what the midtown area has to offer, showcasing local businesses and the creative talents …

Clouds & Crayons, which includes vocalist Astin Sullivan (right) and instrumentalist Loki Antiphony (left), was …

• May 16, 2018

Midfest, an annual street festival and block party, showcases the local businesses and artists in …

• May 16, 2018

Brandon Mitchell & S.W.A.P., or Singers With a Purpose, perform for the release show for …

• May 16, 2018

A Lost Hope: Remembering Lil Lonnie and 2018’s Deadliest Month

Rising hip-hop artist Lonnie "Lil Lonnie" Taylor, 22, was driving around his hometown of Jackson with a woman in the passenger's seat around 10 p.m. on April 29. Suddenly, someone …

Lonnie “Lil Lonnie” Taylor grew up in the Virden Addition and stayed in Jackson to …

• May 16, 2018

Lee Vance III, owner of Josephine’s Kitchen in Jackson and the son of a former …

• May 16, 2018

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• May 16, 2018

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jackson, Lil Lonnie Must Not Die in Vain

When Lil Lonnie died in his car near the home where a white supremacist shot down Medgar Evers in 1963 in front of his children, in a neighborhood where kids …

Lil Lonnie's death needs to mean something huge to the young people he inspired by …

• May 16, 2018

Andrea Reid

When Andrea Reid, 33, and her husband, Kevin Reid, were beginning CityHeart Church, she says they often asked themselves why Jackson needs another church when it has so many.

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• May 16, 2018

EDITORIAL: Feds Must Stop Cruel Deportations, Rethink ‘War on Drugs’

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are arresting more undocumented immigrants now than under the previous administration—nonviolent undocumented men and women as Donald Trump uses scare tactics about dangerous immigrant gangs …

Young people with DACA status are in flux on a weekly basis depending on what …

• May 16, 2018

Undocumented and Caught in the System

Traditionally, the Federal Bureau of Prisons houses undocumented immigrants charged with federal crimes in "criminal alien requirement" facilities. Private prison corporations run the BOP's 11 contract prisons.

Immigration authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi have filed nearly 3,000 deportation proceedings in the first …

• May 16, 2018

‘I’m So Scared’: Saving Kids from Suicide

In 2016, 385 Mississippians committed suicide, statistics from the Mississippi Department of Health show, which means more than one person per day took his or her own life in the …

First lady Deborah Bryant spoke out against the stigma of suicide at the children’s mental-health …

• May 16, 2018

Mississippi Civil Rights Sites Vie to Become National Park

It is hard to choose which site of civil-rights trauma in Mississippi should be a national park, but the effort is under way and controversial, even among some family members …

The Medgar and Myrlie Evers home in Jackson is one of four locations statewide that …

• May 16, 2018