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JSU Homecoming sponsored by Gilead, biopharmaceutical company, will visit JSU for first HBCU roadshow

  • October 17, 2022

Jackson State University’s 2022 “It’s a Different World” Homecoming is sponsored by Gilead, a research-based biopharmaceutical company, who will visit the HBCU on Thursday, Oct. 20, to engage HBCU students,[...]

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The Sonic Boom of the South hosts its 2nd Annual High School Battle of the Bands

  • September 19, 2022

  The “baddest band in the land,” Jackson State University’s Sonic Boom of the South, presents its 2nd annual High School Battle of the Bands on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022,[...]

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The P3 Group, Inc., which is the largest African American-owned real-estate development firm in the U.S. donated $150,000 to JSU and FAMU earlier this year. The group also gave $10,000 to the Sonic Boom of the South. (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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$150K endowment by P3 Group helps students pay college expenses; Sonic Boom gets $10K boost

  • December 21, 2021

Jackson State University received a $150,000 endowment from the foundation of The P3 Group, Inc., which is the largest African American-owned real-estate development firm in the U.S. The Group equally[...]

"It is an esteemed honor to have been selected to participate in a nationally televised commercial with Pepsi,” said Dr. Roderick Little, JSU Director of Bands.

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Jackson State University featured in Pepsi Ad spotlighting HBCU band culture, celebrating SWAC championship game

  • December 2, 2021

The first commercial of its kind from Pepsi features top-ranked Jackson State University (JSU) and Florida A&M University (FAMU)  marching bands. Pepsi – a brand known for working with some[...]

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JSU student goes Hollywood after stirring American Idol audition

  • March 22, 2021

Not everyone can say they made Lionel Richie cry. ackson State University student Deshawn Goncalves visibly moved the “American Idol” judge during his piano playing audition of “Everything Must Change”[...]

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ESPN’s ‘First Take’ will spotlight JSU, students, Coach Prime during Black History Month

  • February 16, 2021

Jackson State University will be featured on ESPN’s “First Take” hosted by Stephen A. Smith. The virtual visit will feature JSU at 9 a.m. (CT) on Wednesday, Feb. 24, as[...]

Meda poses with the 2020-2021 J5 drum majors consisting of (left to right) Gemal Duncan, Nathanial Kenner, Xavian Mitchell and Gregory Turner. (Photo special to JSU)

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Meda made it, becomes first Hispanic drum major in the history of the Sonic Boom

  • April 3, 2020

If a ball of energy were a person, Marvin Garcia Meda would probably be one. The first-year, biology premed student partly credits his energy for helping him secure a coveted[...]

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Sonic Boom featured in new Dear Silas and Big K.R.I.T. video

  • January 21, 2020

Mississippi music artists Dear Silas and Big K.R.I.T.’s video “I Got It” features JSU’s very own Sonic Boom of the South. The feel-good video dropped Jan. 21 at 6 p.m.[...]

"We look forward to providing a high energy show that will appeal to all ages from young to old," said Roderick Little, director of the Boom, instructor of Music and associate director of bands. "A special thanks to those that voted for our band to participate." (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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Sonic Boom set to make ninth appearance in 2020 Honda Battle of the Bands, lineup revealed

  • October 25, 2019

The Sonic Boom of the South is set to make its ninth appearance in the Honda Battle of the Bands (HBOB) on Jan. 25, 2020, in Atlanta. Fans of the[...]

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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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