Jackson Grown Leader Fellowship: The First Year

It was partly selfish. Admittedly, I wanted to feel closer to home. Reflecting back, I wanted to reconnect with a meaningful period of life in a place I loved. Like many folks sprouting a few gray hairs, I felt like I could offer a bit of advice to the generation just behind me. The blank spaces in our daily schedules during the 2020-2021 COVID year(s) provided a moment to brainstorm about how we could build on the Jackson Grown series started in 2017 and published in Our Jackson Home magazine.

Jackson Grown, EssaysGuest ContributorMay 25, 2022Jackson Grown, Vol 8, Vol 8 Issue 1

Showing Up Ready: Mia Moore

StoriesCourtney SearcyNovember 4, 2021Vol. 7 Issue 1: Jackson Grown, Jackson Grown, Mia Moore, Rose Hill, Education, Jackson, JMCSS, Jackson Madison County School System

Jackson Grown: Lauren Pritchard

However one might choose to gauge her, Lauren Pritchard, who goes by the stage name LOLO, does not situate comfortably into the traditional West Tennessee templates assigned to a middle class white girl. The church choir, theatre class, prom-going standards simply don’t work.

Jackson Grown: Drew Sutton

Drew Sutton and I were skinny, rival players with more or less realistic hopes of playing baseball for a low to mid-level university... somewhere.

Stories, Jackson GrownJon Mark WallsJanuary 21, 2021Jackson Grown, Drew Sutton, Baseball, Sports, Jackson TN

Jackson Grown: Wakeema Hollis

August 1966 was a complicated time in the United States. Across the American landscape, leaders emerged, convictions solidified and movements progressed around highly-charged civil rights issues such as voting, education, and worker rights. It was also host to a range of less visible currents that touched the lives of African Americans. Frances, the daughter of West Tennessee sharecroppers and devoted parents, grew up in this time of tectonic social and political shifts.