Book Review: "Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo"
Money is never far from my mind—I’m a Capricorn, after all. When I didn’t have it, I was constantly worrying about how to get it. Now...
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Perdita Patrice
- Oct 26, 2022
Keep Watching: Fall is Here!
Fall has arrived and with it, Spooky Season! There’s nothing like cuddling up on the couch for a show after dinner, as the temperature...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 25, 2022
Courts Transfer Louisiana Children to Notorious Angola Prison
A judge agreed to send two-dozen children to Louisiana’s infamous Angola Prison, despite appeals from the ACLU, federal officials and...
Cheyenne M. Davis
- Oct 17, 2022
Reproductive Health in the time of Reduced Autonomy
Back in May, when Politico reported the leak of the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade, I sat in numbed silence. I laid in bed,...
M. A. S. Frimpong
- Oct 14, 2022
Book Review: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
In Netflix’s remake of the classic Australian show, “Heartbreak High,” the characters Darren (a non-binary character) and Cash...
Madison Meeks
- Oct 12, 2022
Brittney Griner: A Life Deterred
On February 17, 2022, Russian Federal Customs Service detained WNBA superstar, Brittney Griner for possessing vape cartridges containing...
Moyomade Aladesuyi
- Oct 11, 2022
Not a Boy’s Girl | Cementing Friendships with Women in Your 20s
Human beings are social animals who naturally try to find groups of people with similar tastes or beliefs. It’s not unusual for women to...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 10, 2022
Glaring Lack of Oversight, Contempt for Poor People, Delivers Biggest Scam in State History
Mississippi is fostering a queasy reputation for corruption, and gaping holes in its oversight and sunshine laws are making that...
Ekemini Ekpo
- Oct 6, 2022
Empire State of Disillusionment
In September 2021, I moved to Harlem. This was my first time outside the auspices of both my parents’ and alma mater, and it kicked off...
The Lighthouse
- Oct 1, 2022
Welcome to October!
Titles are important. Not the honorific kinds of titles, but the way you name things—books, businesses, initiatives. A title that shows...
Adam Lynch
- Sep 30, 2022
Struggling State Loses Only Burn Center to Covid and Boredom
The state of Mississippi is losing its only burn center at Merit Health Central in South Jackson. The JMS Burn and Reconstruction Center,...
Natalie A. Collier
- Sep 27, 2022
On Pancakes
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve enjoyed cooking. I’ve always been a pretty good cook, but I haven’t always enjoyed it. There’s a...
The Lighthouse
- Sep 24, 2022
The Power of Punctuation
The Power of Punctuation Toni Morrison said, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our...
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 22, 2022
Union Power Growing in the Wake of Covid, Public Opinion
The U.S. has not been a union-friendly nation in the last few decades, and union membership continues to decline in some sectors....
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 1, 2022
Racism Brings Mississippi’s Capital to its Knees
Sandbags surrounding this Jackson home combat flooding from persistent August rain. Recent floods are aggravating a growing list of...
The Lighthouse
- Sep 1, 2022
Welcome to September!
It used to be pretty common when someone might ask another “What’s your dream job?” the other person would respond with a point where...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 25, 2022
Positive Results in Michigan After Teen Incarcerations
by Adam Lynch Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for a commission to decrease adolescent presence in Michigan’s justice system after a...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 23, 2022
“Nope” is a Black Western and a Family Movie
I returned to the movie theater for the first time in three years—the last thing I clearly remember seeing is “Aquaman”—to see Jordan...
Madison Jamar
- Aug 18, 2022
Rediscovering the Value of Telling Slave Stories Through Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’
Before watching “The Underground Railroad,” now streaming on Amazon Prime, I first saw the show’s companion piece, “An Act of Seeing:...