Fix Society, Please: LGBT Teens Deserve to Live
Protesters marched around Gov. Phil Bryant’s mansion in protest to House Bill 1523 on Monday, April 4, a day before the governor signed the anti-LGBT bill into law. Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam [gdlr_space height=”20px”] by Sean Collins [gdlr_space height=”20px”] [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo by Zaccheus White”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_sean-300×200.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_sean.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] On Dec. 28, 2014, 17-year-old […]
Staring Down the ‘Beast of White Supremacy,’ Then and Now
Four marchers who participated in the “March Against Fear” in 1966 returned to Tougaloo College to talk about black freedom, then and now. (From left: Annie Pearl Avery, Dorie Ladner, Charles McLaurin and Robert Smith) Photo Courtesty Imani Khayyam by Jordan Mahoney The rain had stopped pouring earlier on the morning of June 7, 1966. […]
For Zeakyy
by Maggie Jefferis [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”right” caption=”Photo by Zaccheus White”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_Maggie-300×200.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_Maggie.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] He was only a kid, Thrown into trouble and danger at the age of nine Put in a detention center locked away from his family He was only a kid, Knowing one day he would have to make a choice Between […]
Solutions to ‘Heartbreaking Violence’: How to Stop the Cycle
by Maisie Brown and Donna Ladd It was the middle of the summer, and the Westside Early Childhood Development Center was packed with little people. Children were in the halls; they were in the gym; they were in the classrooms. Adults were sprinkled in, directing and teaching curriculum such as Project Read that makes literacy […]
Regina Briggs: Advice from a Former Gang Girl
After getting kicked out of her mom’s house when she chose her new husband over her, Regina Briggs met Eric, the “general” of the Black Ganster Disciples. She was a good student and never wanted to be in a gang, but soon after was in charge of cleaning, reloading and storing weapons for them. Photo […]
This is Not a Free Country
Asia Mangum used to use the phrase “This is a Free Country,” to win arguments. The 16-year-old African American girl fears not only for her future, but the future of her country, immigrants and people of color if the republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, were to become president. Photo by Zaccheus White by Asia Mangum [gdlr_frame […]
Meeting in the Back of the Bus
by Eli Bettiga [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo by Zaccheus White”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_eli-300×200.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/VOICES_mug_eli.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] I could see them sitting in the seats before me; however, the rumbling of the bus kept me from hearing any of Donna Ladd and Mayor Tony Yarber’s important discussion as we rode through neighborhoods in west and south Jackson. As […]
Worth Every Second: Taking the Flag Battle to Washington, D.C.
The Confederate flag is situated in the top left corner of the Mississippi State flag. It soars above the State Capitol building and thousands of other buildings and homes across Mississippi. Maisie Brown, a 14-year-old Jim Hill student, took her plea to Washington, D.C. asking Mississippians to reevaluate what embracing the symbol means and her […]
‘I’m Not Ugly’: How I Survived Bullying
“You’re so ugly no one will ever like you.” Z’eani Furdge, a 16-year-old homeschooled junior, had enough. We’ve all heard the expression, ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,’ but truth is words hurt. Photo by Zaccheus White by Z’eani Furdge [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo by Zaccheus White”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” […]
Past and Present Meet at Home of Medgar Evers
Reena Evers-Everette speaks to Operation Understanding D.C., a group of black and Jewish teens from the nation’s capital on a civil-rights tour of the South, at the site of her father’s, Medgar Evers, death at her childhood home in Jackson, Miss. by Jennifer Shields Little Reena Denise Evers, her mother Myrlie and her two brothers were all […]
