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JSU alum, actor Tonea Stewart talks growing up in ‘The Sip’ and role in new Netflix biopic

April 17, 2018

Mississippi-born film and television actor Tommie Tonea Stewart speaks with a voice that personifies wisdom burgeoned through time and experience. So when Stewart talks about her latest project the Netflix[...]

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MADDRAMA brings the ‘drama’ at Mayor Lumumba, Bernie Sanders town hall

April 6, 2018

Drama was definitely in the building at the “Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later” town hall conversation with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at Thalia[...]

Local artist Chancellor Harris says markers are his specialty as he exhibits his drawings at JSU's Art Spot. "When my grandma died, I got involved with art. It helped me out with my depression. I just put my emotions into my art," said the Memphis native.

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The Art Spot shows youth the sky is the limit

April 3, 2018

Inside and outside Johnson Hall, creativity was in full bloom at “The Art Spot: Each One Teach Many” event hosted by the Jackson State University College of Education and Human[...]

Staff members of JSU's student-led newspaper The Blue & White Flash show off the many awards they received from the Mississippi Press Association. (Photo special to JSU)

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The Blue & White Flash collects 16 awards at O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference

April 2, 2018

The Blue and White Flash won a total of 16 awards and two first-place plaques in the student division of the 2017-2018 Better Newspaper Contest at the 20th annual O.C.[...]

JSU students and members of the theatrical performance troope MADDRAMA brought home more first-place awards than their competitors at the 82nd Annual National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Competition in March. (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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JSU’s performance troupe MADDRAMA racks up the wins at national drama competition

April 2, 2018

Jackson State University’s student performance troupe MADDRAMA recently racked up the wins at the 82nd National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Conference at Dillard University where they contended against[...]

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Duren named director of theatre department

March 27, 2018

Jackson State University alumnus Prince Duren has been named director of the Department of Theatre. The Itta Bena, Mississippi, native received his bachelor’s degree in mass communications and English from[...]

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Margaret Walker Center to unveil interpretive plaque in Farish Street Park

March 21, 2018

On Thursday, March 22, at 4:30 pm the Margaret Walker Center and Significant Developments will unveil an interpretive plaque for the public sculpture Farish Quilt in Farish Street Park at[...]

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Associate director named to HBCU board

March 9, 2018

Spencer McClenty, associate director of the Department of Communications and Marketing, was recently appointed to the 2018 HBCUgrow Advisory Board. HBCUgrow strives to improve the brand, website and marketing campaigns[...]

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BET’s ‘THE QUAD’ chooses JSU student video for ‘Rep Your HBCU’ contest

March 6, 2018

JSU student Cameron Caldwell’s video entry for the “Rep Your HBCU” contest was one of 10 selected by BET’s “THE QUAD.” The video contest allows students attending Historically[...]

Author Angie Thomas tells an audience at JSU how rapper Tupac Shakur, her childhood and social injustice led to her writing the New York Times bestseller "The Hate U Give." (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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New York Times bestselling author teaches students how to find their activism

March 2, 2018

Amid life in the “hood,” author and Jackson native Angie Thomas distinctly remembers the day she saw a picture of Emmett Till lying in a casket on the cover[...]