Future Leaders Build Bonds, Grow from Diversity
by Maisie Brown Photo above of Rikyla Brown by Jordan Mahoney [gdlr_frame type=”border” align=”left” caption=”Photo Courtesy Maisie Brown”][gdlr_image_link type=”image” image_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maisie_Brown.png” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maisie_Brown.png” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] The large room with huge African flags plastered over the huge walls shows signs of black liberation and power at the Lumumba Center at 939 W. Capitol St. in Jackson. Rooms are named after […]
Overcoming Black Girls’ Barriers to Success
by Asia Mangum [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/Asia_Mangum_Ik-200×300.jpg” link_url=”https://www.jxnpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Asia_Mangum_Ik.jpg” alt=””][/gdlr_frame] Black women may be the most educated group in the country, but the employment and salary rates don’t match up, and they often face barriers to success in the workplace. Some young women of color worry that predominantly black schools are not providing […]
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 […]
Punched in the Gut: On Police and Distrust
Zeakyy Harrington, 17, grew up in the Washington Addition, a neighborhood west of downtown Jackson, Miss. When he was 16-years-old, one of Harrington’s friends threw up their middle finger to a cop driving by and soon after the teenagers were being punched, cuffed and taken to Henley Young Detention Center. Photo Courtesy Imani Khayyam by Zeakyy Harrington [gdlr_frame […]
‘My World’: Kenytta Brown
by Kenytta Brown Imagine a world with no problems Imagine our people picking cotton Thunder storms and dark skies Politicians and many lies There’s crime every hour Sometimes I wonder who really have the power I just want a world when people can be free Not a war to see who can control me!!! Young […]
Is America Really the Land of the Free?
From the time we are bright-eyed, bushy-tailed five-year olds learning our ABCs, we are taught one essential phrase: America is the ‘Land of the Free.’ Growing up as an African American girl with a white best friend, Jordan Mahoney always said she didn’t see race, she saw people, but her mom always told her “It’s more […]
