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‘Thee I Love’ celebrates JSU retirees

May 18, 2018

Jackson State University paid tribute to retiring faculty and staff last month in a special “Thee I Love” celebration held in the Student Center. The keynote speaker for the event[...]

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JSU 2018 football season tickets offers savings, bonus

May 17, 2018

2018 JSU Football Season Tickets Jackson State University’s Division of Athletics has enhanced its football season tickets package and is offering fans an exclusive opportunity with every purchase. Everyone who[...]

Several people attended the 48th anniversary of the deadly tragedy at JSU that occurred May 15, 1970. Standing in front of Alexander Hall, which was struck by gunfire, are survivors XXXXXXX, left, Eddie Jean Carr and James “Lap” Baker. They’re accompanied by Aeneas Bridges, who is learning about JSU’s past so he can be part of its future.

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Survivors lay wreath to commemorate 48th anniversary of Gibbs-Green deadly tragedy

May 16, 2018

The Margaret Walker Center, along with a few survivors, laid a wreath Tuesday on the Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza in front of Alexander Hall to commemorate the 48thanniversary of the deadly[...]

Transfer student Cameron Lemon graduated JSU with honors after losing three scholarships due to low grades while a student at Hinds Community College. (Photo special to JSU)

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One-time community college dropout, graduates from JSU with honors

May 11, 2018

Cameron Lemon silently rejoiced as he strolled across the Jackson State University stage during undergraduate commencement exercises last month. He was finally receiving his degree in journalism and media studies[...]

JSU President William B. Bynum Jr. and Lt. Col. Dexter Brookins congratulate five new second lieutenants and an alum earning the rank of lieutenant colonel during a commissioning ceremony. The honorees are Lt. Col. Natalie Bynum, left, and 2nd Lieutenants Gabriel E. Brown, Louis J. Hall, Ebony C. Dunlap, Andrea N. Thomas and Rolundra O. Rhodes. (Photo by Aron Smith/JSU)

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JSU congratulates newly minted 2nd lieutenants preparing to defend nation

May 11, 2018

Brigadier Gen. (Ret.) Robert Crear, a JSU alum, recently saluted five cadets being commissioned as second lieutenants and recognized their bravery to protect a nation at war for more than[...]

During the recent event for Denim Day, which highlights sexual assault awareness, Horton encouraged students, faculty and staff to sign jeans to show their support of the campaign. Dr. Steven Smith, left, associate dean of JSU's Enrollment Management and director of Admissions and Recruitment, pens his name to the garment. Warren Johnson, associate, vice president and dean of Enrollment Management, joins him in a show of solidarity. (Photo by L.A. Warren/JSU)

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S.A.F.E. environment: Denim Day urges action against, awareness of campus sexual assault

May 9, 2018

The Division of Student Affairs and the Latasha Norman Center For Counseling recently organized Denim Day inside the JSU Student Center to spread the word about campus assault nationwide and[...]

Undergraduate Commencement 2018 (Charles A. Smith/University Communications)

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Mayor calls JSU grads the generation of governors: Tells them to change world, now

May 1, 2018

By Rachel James-Terry The future of the world “depends on the individual and collective genius that you possess,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said to over 800 undergraduates at Jackson State[...]

Spring graduate commencement keynote Dr. Leonard Moore, interim vice president for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, gives an exuberant speech to rally graduates into action. “I’m amazed at the number of educated folks who are scared to do something – scared it may not work; scared it may offend somebody; scared they may lose their jobs. Ignore the haters in your life,” he admonished. (Photo by Charles A. Smith)

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Commencement speaker Moore: ‘See the need … do something about it’

May 1, 2018

The 2018 graduate commencement speaker at Jackson State University told more than 300 honorees Friday inside the Lee E. Williams Athletics and Assembly Center that seeing a need is not[...]

Abram and Najla Muhammad make Jackson State University history as the first father and daughter to graduate from the W.E.B. DuBois-Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey Honors College. (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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It’s a family affair: Father, daughter first to graduate together from JSU honors college

April 26, 2018

Abram and Najla Muhammad will make Jackson State University history as the first father and daughter to graduate from the W.E.B. DuBois-Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey Honors College at the HBCUs[...]

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Presidential Recruitment Tour: JSU amps up high school crowds in Meridian, Greenville

April 23, 2018

Members of the JSU Presidential Recruitment Tour recently journeyed to Meridian and the Mississippi Delta with the Sonic Boom and other revered campus organizations, leaving hundreds of awestruck students[...]

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