Sharpening My Skills When it comes to cooking, I am enormously interested, but easily intimidated.
The Water Also Rises In the ecological balance between droughts and floods, Where do Mississippi farmers—and consumer prices—stand?
Raising FilmmakersIt is raining in downtown Jackson. The humidity is stifling and uncomfortably sticky even under a rain jacket, yet a film crew is hard at work in the middle of a deserted street.
Chicks We Love Every year just in time for the JFP Chick Ball, we name our roster of "Chicks We Love." Yes, we know they are powerful women; that's why we pick them.
Hero of the Year: Shalotta Sharp Shalotta Sharp brings 16 years of experience as a nurse and a passion for helping and healing to every aspect of her job with the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
The Real Roots of Evil"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." —Audre Lorde
Sexual Assault on CampusToward the end of her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, Laura Dunn attended a frat party where she drank way too many raspberry vodkas. Two guys she previously knew and trusted took her to another house. …
Battle to Unionize NissanCANTON – Michael Carter hardly evokes the Hollywood image of a podium-pounding, fire-breathing labor agitator.