Cover Story

Dr. Doom: NFL Hall of Famer Ex-linebacker Brazile aims to position JSU for greater success 0
- Alumni in Action, Athletics, Cover Story, Featured, Slider, Winter 2018
- February 4, 2019
The Jackson State University alum noted that out of tens of thousands who play football in parks, local schools, college and the NFL that he’s now part of an elite group. “There are only 318 Hall of Famers, and I’m No. 312.” However, before the suspense was over in the Hilton hotel, he and his
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Rebuilding with Bynum: President talks direction and future of ‘Thee I Love’1
- Cover Story, Winter 2017 Issue
- March 5, 2018
by Rachel James-Terry Inside his top-floor office with large windows that overlook a sprawling, picturesque campus, Dr. William B. Bynum Jr, Jackson State University’s 11th president, is hundreds of miles away from his hometown of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. But it’s a place that’s never far from his heart. It was there that he found
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Jackson State Launches New School of Journalism and Media Studies 0
- Cover Story, Featured, Spring 2016 Issue
- May 19, 2016
Once again, Jackson State University has made history. Last November, it became the first historically black institution in the state of Mississippi to open a School of Journalism and Media Studies and the seventh HBCU out of 106 in the nation. “The School of Journalism and Media Studies will give our students the skills and
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Jackson State Gave Me A Chance 0
- Featured, Cover Story
- May 19, 2016
As a young boy growing up in Tulsa, Okla., DeMarco Morgan had more than just a childhood curiosity of television news. He would run home to watch the evening news and sit so close to the television his mother would warn him about ruining his eyes. “I didn’t see anyone who looked like me, but I
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JSU School of Public Health – Changing the Health Landscape of Mississippi 0
- Cover Story, Featured
- July 29, 2015
Mississippi for decades has ranked last or near the bottom among all states in a slew of life-threatening or life-altering health conditions — obesity, diabetes, infant mortality. These conditions are exacerbated by factors that shut many of the state’s residents out of access to affordable healthcare and forces those who can afford it but live inREAD MORE

Dr. Doom: NFL Hall of Famer Ex-linebacker Brazile aims to position JSU for greater success 0