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By Alice Thomas-Tisdale Jackson Advocate Publisher We encourage all of our readers to consider their stock, bond, and mutual fund investments to make certain that they know the specific companies in which they are investing. Our readers should determine if these companies are socially responsible and therefore worthy of investment. Given the serious allegations [...]
By Ivory Phillips Jackson Advocate Contributing Editor From the mid 1500s through the early 1900s, there was a serious decline in Black history, taking us from the greatness of Africa to the destruction of black civilization seen in the partitioning of Africa and the rise of European and American slavery. Virtually every country in Africa [...]
Jackson Advocate wrote this week that Kroger has ended their 30 year advertising relationship. A big hit to the Advocate. (Please see details in article). Immediately, it aroused my own concerns about Kroger and other large food chains which have left our neighborhoods. In the past couple of years, Kroger has closed a major location [...]
By Ivory Phillips Jackson Advocate Contributing Editor Prior to the Mississippi State Legislative Session last year, there was a vigorous effort to kill Governor Haley Barbour’s effort to merge Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University with Jackson State University. There were marches, petition drives and press conferences. Finally, Black legislative leaders vowed that [...]
Dear Editor, The legislative session has already begun this January. Much of the session will be dominated by debate over the state budget. The governor has presented budget recommendations that are very different from those of the legislative budget committee on which I serve. Among Governor Barbour’s suggestions are cutting funding for K-12 education by [...]
By Bishop Ronnie Crudup Jackson Advocate Guest Writer StewPot Community Services is engaged in a Capital Campaign to raise four million dollars. The purpose of the campaign is to conduct much needed major renovations of its buildings and grounds, thus serving its clients better. However, in this good work lies a very troubling problem for [...]
By IBy Mahasin Owens-Sabir Jackson Advocate Guest Writer A select group of twenty-seven educators, community leaders, alumni, and students worked for weeks, clocking in countless hours, believing that we were performing a valuable service by participating in the process of selecting the next president for Jackson State University (JSU). This select group screened over forty [...]
A Note of Thanks to President Barack Hussein Obama, President Obama, thank you for your integrity, intellect, wisdom, and love of all mankind. Thank you, President Obama and those in Congress who voted with you, for Health Care; I prayed that it would come to fruition and it did. I thank God, because He knows [...]
A Note of Thanks to President Barack Hussein Obama, President Obama, thank you for your integrity, intellect, wisdom, and love of all mankind. Thank you, President Obama and those in Congress who voted with you, for Health Care; I prayed that it would come to fruition and it did. I thank God, because He knows [...]
NAACP President Ben Jealous sends out letter to garner support in tragic case How much is a life worth? What about two lives? For sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott, $11 earned them each double life sentences. Jamie and Gladys were convicted of being accomplices to a 1993 robbery. The teenagers who carried out the robbery [...]
Randy Pippins – Working With Nissan – Watch His Story
Kim Ragsdale Ervin – Working With Nissan – Watch Her Story
Helelaine Hill – Working With Nissan – Watch Her Story
Corey Garner – Working With Nissan – Watch His Story
Malcolm White named chairman of the Mississippi Blues Commission
SBA launches program to help transitioning service members and veterans become entrepreneurs