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Electing Justice: The JFP Interview with Justice Jim Kitchens
Elections for Mississippi Supreme Court justice seats only come up every eight years, so when they do, the money pours in, PACs line up and partisan lines are drawn in the supposedly non-partisan...
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College Basketball Preview 2016: The Bigs
College football is entering the home stretch, the leaves have fallen from the trees, and the weather is beginning to stay cool. While it isn't quite time for the holiday season, you have reason to...
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College Basketball Preview 2016: Small Schools
Alcon State Braves Alcorn State University kicked off last season with seven consecutive losses and finished the non-conference slate with a 2-9 record—a rough start for first-year head coach Montez...
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‘We Failed Him’: Caught in the Revolving Door of Juvenile Detention
Yvette Mason lives a mother's nightmare. On June 21, 2016, she drove her 17-year-old son Charles McDonald to the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center, where he had been eight times since his 13th...
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Take-out for Thanksgiving
Broad Street Baking Co. (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900, broadstbakery.com) Broad Street's menu for Thanksgiving includes baked goods such as caramel-apple king cake, decorated sugar...
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A Festive, Local Holiday
The impending holiday season means stuffing our faces with tons of food and congregating with family and friends, but it also means something else: The shopping season is about to begin. This holiday,...
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Digging Up the Roots of Jackson’s ‘Numbing’ Crime with Mayor Tony Yarber
Tony Tarzel Yarber, 16, waved at his best friend, Lakenya Bolden, as he drove past him in Jackson's Subdivision 2 on Aug. 4, 1994. Bolden was driving into the "Sub" on Wiggins Road, Yarber driving...
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Try This at Home
While it's nice to get a facial or a blow-out sometimes, taking care of your skin or hair or nails doesn't always have to be a big deal. Some ingredients you can find in your home have beauty and...
View ArticleMississippi Music of 2016 (So Far)
Over the years, I've done plenty of interviews with local Jackson acts and nationally known recording artists, and I've been surprised at how many of the same topics of conversation come up for both....
View ArticlePretty Holidays
This Christmas, don't forget that your loved ones should feel beautiful and pampered, too. Here are some items from local stores that can help. Zipper pouch, $5.95, Beemon DrugsBronzer brush, $9.89,...
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Community Through Song
Jerry Jenkins wouldn't call himself a percussionist. The owner of Jackson-based Hasan Drums does play West African drums, including the djembe, and other instruments such as the 21-stringed kora, but...
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A NuRenaissance Before the New Year
Myron McGowan is many things. He is a native Mississippian from rural Foxworth, Miss., who takes style influence from the '70s (no gold chains, though, he says). He's a Jackson State University...
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Saint Nick’s Swamp Tour
For the folks at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, nothing says Christmas time like coming face to face with bayou critters. The museum will host its annual Cajun Christmas on Friday, Dec. 9,...
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‘Not a Dungeon’: The Evolving Approach to Juvenile Detention
Across the pod, from inside the darkness of a cell, two shining circles stared out: the still and steady eyes of a black boy, locked up before he is even a man. His cell is on the lower floor of the...
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Love Thy Neighbor: How to Connect in Divided Times
You can't sugarcoat it. In the wake of the 2016 presidential campaign, these are tough, divisive times. We're all hearing a lot about how Americans don't talk to people who disagree with them,...
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Making Ends Meet: Lawmakers Wrestle with Education, Infrastructure and...
"Antiquated. Confusing. Inefficient. Unreliable. Unpredictable. What do these words describe?" House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, asked at the annual Hobnob event on Oct. 26, speaking to business...
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The Most Intriguing of 2016
The last year was a crazy one, to say the least, but crazy often means that intriguing people came out of the woodwork. Here are some of the local people we found the most intriguing over the last...
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UPDATED: Broadening the Tent: Lumumba Vows to Gain, Give Respect as Mayor
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 33, walks through downtown Jackson on Nov. 19, 2016, soaking up the warmth of the sunshine on the cold winter day as he outlines his plan to carry on the work of his late father,...
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The District Attorney's Mistrial: What Just Happened? A Day-by-Day Primer
The Mississippi attorney general's prosecution of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith for conspiracy to hinder prosecution in order to aid or assist a defendant ended in a mistrial on...
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Best of Jackson 2017: Community & Culture
Best Radio Personality or Team; Radio Station: Carson and Bender, Y101 WYOY, 101.7, y101.com In the world of Top-40 radio, Y101 is one of the stations that stands out, and not just because it earned...
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