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All posts tagged "Jackson Mississippi"
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2.7KNewsA struggling Mississippi school district leans on afterschool programming
When the pandemic hit Jackson, Mississippi, the ongoing challenge to keep teenagers in high school got even harder. As the economic impacts...
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3.8KNewsYouth Caught in Crosshairs of Cycles of Gun Violence. Is Anybody Listening?
Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were...
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2.8KNewsEx-juvenile Offender Finds Key to Stem Youth Crime: Give Kids Hope
Tommie Mabry was 12 when a bullet grazed him while he was burglarizing a home he thought was empty. It could have...
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1.9KNewsJackson, Mississippi, Native Working to Change Culture of Suspension in Its Public Schools
Juan Cloy remembers being suspended when he was at Provine High School in the 1980s. He and several friends got in a...
