Fun-loving Sam Pollard Jr. won friends in his Jackson community but he had serious dreams of owning his own home.
Those dreams ended abruptly Feb. 25, 2021, when a close friend shot the 32-year-old dead on North Prentiss Street in west Jackson, leaving Pollard’s three children – two girls and a boy – to bear the trauma of violence that has scarred so many youth in Mississippi’s capital city.
Read MoreHours after graduating from Murrah High School, Kennedy Hobbs visited the cemetery where her boyfriend was buried, placing her sash across his grave and snapping a picture for Instagram, writing, “For u baby.”
Read MoreJanice Driskell is a nurse practitioner, who works at in a clinic in Tupelo.
Read MoreMauda L. Monger is chief operating officer at My Brother’s Keeper Inc. in Jackson
Read MoreLacey Ward is a registered nurse in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Adult Emergency Department.
Read MoreSince Gov. Tate Reeves lifted a statewide mask mandate two months ago, COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed to record levels in Mississippi, where there is now an “uncontrolled spread” of the disease.
Read MoreThe pandemic started far from our nation, but the disease soon struck our shores.
Our leaders downplayed the possible harm, and before long, Americans began to be infected at an alarming rate.
Read MoreThe scenes play over and over again in the mind of civil rights pioneer Myrlie Evers.
A white police officer in Minneapolis kneels on the neck of a black man who keeps saying, “I can’t breathe,” until he lies motionless.
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