Jackson Leaders Denounce ‘60 Minutes’ For ‘Hideous’ Portrayal of CityThe Jackson City Council denounced CBS News’ portrayal of Mississippi’s capital city in a resolution Tuesday that accused the network of depicting “the most hideous scenes” in a “60 Minutes’ episode that featured an interview with former Jackson State University football coach, Deion Sanders. Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba also voiced his disapproval of the episode.
During the meeting, members called on local, state and national media outlets to be more mindful about how they frame the City’s challenges. Continue reading this article on the Mississippi Free Press site.
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These articles were published during my time as a student at Spring Hill College: "Capegirl Brings Awareness to Rare Genetic Disorder""Poverty Seminar Highlights Struggles of Alabama Families""Open and Honest' Dialogues About Race on Campus"These are clippings of my reporting that I completed while interning as a reporter at the Mobile Beacon, the oldest African American run newspaper in Alabama. I wrote articles on everything from Alabama housing issues to features about a young woman starting her own business to the Mardi Gras season and more.
MOBILE, AL--One of Dr. Christopher Puto’s fondest memories as a child was traveling to Houston, Texas with his family from their home in Mobile, Alabama and passing the time at Ice at the Galleria, a popular ice skating rink at the Galleria mall. Puto reminisced that the experience was one that he would never forget. “My whole family would go out there. That was something that I didn’t have the opportunity to do back where I lived,” he said. From American Idol to the Real Housewives of Atlanta, reality television has ushered in a new era of “real” and “unscripted” programing that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. On the contrary, this branch of television, which became popular around the mid-1990s with the emergence of the Real World, has a fan base that is steady growing. According to Spring Hill College sophomore and aspiring reality TV star, Demetrice Jones, “People look to reality TV for the outrageous drama that’s going to occur.”
He’s not wrong when it comes to the huge amount of salaciousness and drama that many of these shows popularize. The question has often been asked if these shows are too violent, too sexual, and too profane. Recently a scuffle between Real Housewives of Atlanta stars Kenya Moore and former wife of a NFL star, Porsha Williams on the reunion special landed Williams in jail. Despite objections and criticisms, the genre doesn’t seem to be on a decline. Here are some very important numbers in the world of reality television. “Last year, I broke my nose. I got an elbow driven across my face by a teammate at practice and actually had to have surgery to fix it,” said Bethany Collins, a junior at Spring Hill College. “And then there are those bills. I’m getting bills mailed to me. I shouldn’t have to deal with those,” she continued. As she reminisced on the incident, two fellow basketball players grimaced while she held up her arms, clasped her hands with her elbows pointed outward and demonstrated the motion of what happened. Collins, a red haired point guard for the Badgers, had no hesitation giving her opinion on college athletics, injuries and players being taken for granted. She’s no exception. Recently, the spotlight has been placed on the college athletic experience and what players go through in athletic programs across this country.
Can’t go one day without having your cup of freshly brewed, steamed, caffeinated drink? If you can do without that extra burst of robust energy, odds are that you know someone who can’t. The Barista Championships currently being held in the UK are evidence that people can’t get enough of coffee and espresso based coffee drinks. But, do you ever stop to think about the process that goes into making that shot of caffeine, whether medium or dark and who the artists are that create your morning cup of Joe? A local barista, and owner of coffee shop and roaster Carpe Diem, Ginger Jesser talks about what her job entails.
It was a routine play. Frederick Gaston, a 6-foot, 6-inch senior from Riverdale, Ga., was jumping into the air near the basket on a defensive play.
“I remember that play vividly. I was jumping up and one of the players from the other team jumped up too and came down on my back. I had my hands up in the air and couldn’t break my fall. I basically fell on my face,” he recalled. That night Gaston, most commonly referred to on campus by his middle name, “Najgee”, scored 20 points. and had 12 rebounds in a win against Truett-McConnell, a college in Georgia. Before the game was over however, in a thrilling play, he fell head first to the court, got up and revealed to the stunned crowd his chipped front teeth. It would surprise many to find out that the psychology major actually had no offers to play basketball anywhere as a high school student at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School in Fayetteville, Ga. Mobile, AL -- The 16 year old sat nervously in the chair. She tapped her feet on the floor and fumbled with her fingers. The only thing that calmed her nerves was looking over at her mom who smiled at her with excitement.
Frye Gaillard Presents 'Spring Hill College's Role in Intergration and Civil Rights in the 1960's11/3/2013 Mobile, AL -- Mobile native and civil rights author Frye Gaillard recalled Spring Hill College’s role in integration and the civil rights movement of the 1960’s in a speech Monday night on the campus.
“We really can do better…and live as a people in a better way than we had before,” Gaillard recalled Monday to a packed room of both college students and interested Mobile residents, respectively. He says that Spring Hill College was one of the institutions that took a firm and unwavering stand against segregation and discrimination in a time where such acts were viewed as normal. |
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