Jackson Free Press

North Jackson Rotary Club Member and “Between the Lions” coordinator Jenny Price (back) reads to …

• August 30, 2017

The Slate

Finally, college football returns all around the country this week. It is also the final week of the NFL preseason, and most teams will be cutting their rosters from 90 …

Making Afterschool Programs Work

Operation Shoestring Program Director Amber May says that an equitable education is a basic right for everyone.

Children read during Operation Shoestring’s afterschool programming, which the organization calls Project Rise.

• August 30, 2017

A Two-Heart Society

Husband-and-wife music duo Teneia Sanders-Eichelberger and Ben Eichelberger have kept themselves busy over the past few years, between making Jackson their new base of operations in late 2015 and performing …

With their upcoming album, “Wake the Queens,” Teneia Sanders-Eichelberger and Ben Eichelberger are making big …

• August 30, 2017

Fighting an Old War

While Russia and Confederate statues deserve media coverage, they are also easy targets that don't challenge the corporate state.

Still, for the adult version of that Yankee-fighting youth back in North Carolina, many of …

• August 30, 2017

Prison Beds Not Based on Reading Scores, But ...

Educational deficiencies, especially when coupled with poverty or trauma, do increase the risk of crime later. It's important, though, to break down the various pieces of the puzzle to find …

Public schools that serve children in poverty need the most resources to help them serve …

• August 30, 2017

Dear Confederates, Leave My Heritage Alone!

Mississippi's history is one of beauty and blood; music and malevolence; literature and lamentation. We can't ignore the ugly parts; those stains don't wash out. But we sure as hell …

Our history is one of beauty and blood; music and malevolence; literature and lamentation. We …

• August 30, 2017

Brent Hearn

• August 30, 2017

Infrastructure Funding Could Include Tax Increases

Mississippi senators met in Jackson last week to explore ways to raise more money for the state's deteriorating infrastructure, The move seemed to contradict their leader, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, …

Sen. Willie Simmons, D-Cleveland, chairs the Senate Transportation Committee, and held a meeting to discuss …

• August 30, 2017

DJP ‘Whistleblower’ Indicted for Five Felonies for Allegedly Forging Checks

The former Downtown Jackson Partners secretary who blew the proverbial whistle on her boss, Ben Allen, may end up guilty of more felonies than her former employer for "intentionally" methodically …

The former executive assistant of Downtown Jackson Partners President Ben Allen (pictured) now faces five …

• August 30, 2017

Davis IB Program Helps Kindergartners Shine on Exam

Principal Kathleen Grigsby has a reason to be proud: Kindergarteners at Davis IB Elementary in downtown Jackson scored in the top 10 of all schools in the state on the …

Kathleen Grigsby is the principal at David IB Elementary School, where kindergarteners scored in the …

• August 30, 2017

Lumumba Administration Growing: Hatcher, Kumar, Williams Join City's Team

The new mayor of the capital city took office on July 3, along with the slightly reconfigured Jackson City Council. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 34, announced his first wave of …