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Creating Good Work Environments

6/5/2018

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by Amber Helsel
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Events such as April’s Startup Weekend at Coalesce in downtown Jackson show the growth of Jackson’s entrepreneurship community. It’s important to understand the challenges those businesses may face and help alleviate them. Photo courtesy Crystal Kehtel/Innovate Mississippi
​One of BOOM Jackson and the Jackson Free Press' biggest missions is to show people why they should support local business. Much of our coverage tends to center around local entrepreneurs and people.

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From Ecosheds to Food Halls: Much Underway in Jackson

6/5/2018

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by Dustin Cardon
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Smith Park in downtown Jackson reopened on Friday, April 13. The park now has fresh grass, a new stage floor, refurbished park benches and more green space. Photo by Amber Helsel
​Hinds Renovates Metrocenter Space

Hinds Community College and the Metrocenter Mall began renovations on March 29 to turn a 189,000-square-foot space in the southeast corner of the mall, which once housed Belk and the McRae's department, into a "Comprehensive One-Stop Center." The center will offer career-technical and workforce training programs for both high-tech training and middle-skill education. The renovations will take about six months.

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Peekaboo: Raven Douglas

6/5/2018

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Photo by Delreco Harris
​​Raven Douglas, who owns local copywriting and content-creation business The Douglas Draft, spends her days figuring out how to convey the messages her clients are trying to put out there. Recently, she let us peek inside her bag. See what we found.

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From APAC to Amazon

6/5/2018

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by Todd Stauffer
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Nashlie Sephus and Ivan Walker, both Murrah High School graduates, are making their high-tech mark in Atlanta. Photo courtesy Nashlie Sephus and Ivan Walker
​Nashlie Sephus and Ivan Walker knew each other at Siwell Middle School in sixth grade, but were surprised when they both got into Academic and Performing Arts Complex. or APAC, programs and ended up at Peeples Middle School for the seventh grade. Walker was particularly chagrinned with Sephus.

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The Tougaloo Nine: Reading for Change

6/5/2018

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by Ko Bragg
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The Tougaloo Nine, a group of students who staged a library read-in at the Jackson Municipal Library on March 27, 1961, received a marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail in August 2017. Photo by Stephen WIlson
​Geraldine Edwards Hollis showed up at the white-only Jackson Municipal Public Library on March 27, 1961, in a suit she had designed and sewn herself. It was double-breasted with three-quarter-length sleeves. In her book, "Back to Mississippi" (Xlibris, 2011, $29.99), she recalls making sure she wore something with pockets that day to put things in for safekeeping.

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Decoding the Future

6/5/2018

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by Malcolm Morrow
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Clarence Conner (left) is part of the 2017-2018 class of coders at the Mississippi Coding Academies in downtown Jackson. This year’s program will conclude in September. Photo by Stephen Wilson
​Aquita Bryant, 22, decided she wanted to know everything about the media ministry at her church, Crossroads International House of Worship in Jackson. She set her sights on learning how to use all of the equipment and moved up the ranks. Earlier this year, she became the director of media.

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Small Crafts

6/5/2018

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by Amber Helsel
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City Pins’ Coliseum Pin
​Catherine Lee sports a collection of enamel pins on her bag and her jacket.

Among them are a purple Share Bear pin from a Care Bears x Kidrobot blindbox and one of her and husband Garrad Lee's own creations, a green basketball jersey with a shamrock and the name "Ingram" imprinted on it.

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A Beacon for Creativity

6/4/2018

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by ShaCamree Gowdy
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Nicole Wyatt Jenkins Photo by Delreco Harris
​Walking into The Beacon, floor-to-ceiling murals surround customers from as they walk in the door. The galaxy wall and lunar-surface floors are the perfect touch to the Fondren shop and gallery because, as local artist and co-owner Nicole Wyatt Jenkins says, "Not many people can say they've walked on the moon."

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I Believe in Jackson

6/4/2018

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by Amber Helsel
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Managing Editor Amber Helsel
City of Jackson Urban Designer Salam Rida and her fiance Travis Crabtree, also an urban designer for the City, came to Jackson from Detroit because they saw opportunity. They wanted to convert an industrial property into a multi-use facility, and guess what? Mississippi and Jackson are affordable, so they came here.

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