Young Men, Stop Gambling and Save Your Life
[gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Shakira_Porter_Ik_web-1-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Shakira_Porter_Ik_web-1.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] by Shakira Porter On Wednesday, March 29, 2017, two young brothers, 16-year-old Davonza Jaron Bell and 18-year-old Donta Curry, were in Westside Park in west Jackson with a group of guys playing dice when heated tempers turned the game into gunfire. A friend from my […]
Saved by the Yin-Yang: Learning to Embrace Good and the Bad
Kenytta Brown (left) helped welcome Mayor-elect Chokwe A. Lumumba (right) to the YMP for an interview soon after he won the 2017 Democratic primary. JPS school board member Jed Oppenheim is in the center. Photo above by Donna Ladd [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kenytta_Brown_Ik-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Kenytta_Brown_Ik.jpg alt=””][/gdlr_frame] by Kenytta Brown When I […]
Why Teens Commit Crime
by Patrick Harris [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Patrick_Harris_Ik-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Patrick_Harris_Ik.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] One week before my mother needed some money for the rent man and bills, my brothers and I made some plans for each one of us to help our mother pay rent. My little brother went to the store, and stole […]
Homeschooling: An Awesome Experience
Whether you’re sitting in 5th period or studying calculus on the beach, having options is what 16-year-old Z’eani Furdge says transformed her high school education. Photo above by Joshua Wright by Z’eani Furdge [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Zeani_Furdge_Ik-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Zeani_Furdge_Ik-e1468524194208.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] “Beep, beep, beep.” “It’s 6 a.m. already,” I say to myself as […]
I Won’t Let My Godmother Down
by Shakira Porter Photo by Nameisha Magee My godmother Lashunda Summers made me who I am today. She is a wonderful, intelligent, hard-working woman who takes care of elderly people for a living. She often tells me how blessed I am today. She has been there for me for a good long time. She took […]
‘Money Can Read; He’s Smart’
by Marquavious Harris Photo above of Harris by Dartavius Archie Money is this 20-year-old boy who is my cousin. Money grew up in Jackson, Miss., on a small side of town called the Virden Addition. Money’s father was in jail before he turned 9, so he really didn’t have a father figure to look up […]
From the Mayor to Shabbat: A Summer of Learning at YMP
From meeting the mayor to interviewing Medgar Evers’ daughter, 15-year-old Joshua Wright spent the summer pounding the streets of Jackson, Miss. discovering an entirely different side of the city he so quickly overlooked. By Joshua Wright [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Josh-Wright-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Josh-Wright.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] I have enjoyed my time at the Mississippi Youth […]
Love Is Just A Way of Life
by Asia Mangum [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo by Kelsee Ford”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_3916-300×200.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_3916.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] One night I sat up watching “Sex and the City” with my mom’s permission as long as I didn’t repeat any of the bad words. The four women were sitting at a dinner table and discussing their love lives as […]
From Shabbat to Interviewing: Learning So Much So Fast
Sixteen-year-old Darryn Price decided to spend her summer between 11th and 12th grade doing something other than binge-watching Netflix and started living outside her comfort zone- “Shabbat Shalom.” Photo Courtesy Onelia Hawa by Darryn Price [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/Darryn_Price_Portrait-200×300.png” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Darryn_Price_Portrait.png” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] I usually spend my summers curled up in bed […]
Ego, and the Fear of Losing
Privilege and ego go hand-in-hand according to a 16-year-old white boy living in Jackson, Miss. August Harp is an upcoming soccer star who plays for a well-known, back-to-back-to-back, champion select team and is also on his school’s underdog soccer team. Harp sees how different select world is from public school world. One team fears losing while the other […]
