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By DeAngelo Vaxter
Jun 22, 2021 | 6:08 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Jackson Public Schools (JPS) has partnered with Jackson Hinds Comprehensive Health Center to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to staff and students 18-years-old or older.
The clinic will be held on Thursday, June 24, from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Blackburn Middle School located at 1311 W. Pearl Street.
According to JPS, clinicians will administer the two-dose Moderna vaccine. Participants must present their vaccination cards to receive their second dose. Vaccination cards will be given to those receiving their first dose. No ID is required, and there’s no charge.
A long line of cars stretched down Dr. Robert Smith Sr. Parkway in front of Blackburn Middle School Saturday morning, each car steadily moving forward as the day wore on.
Jackson State University students, staff and other volunteers stood in front of an 18-wheeler with a bright, light blue trailer adorned with the Amazon logo smiling across it.
Jackson community members were ushered through the Blackburn Middle School parking lot at 1311 W. Pearl Street starting at 9 a.m. to pick up nonperishable items, cases of water, hand sanitizers and masks. For those with children, volunteers also included books as part of the giveaway. .
Jackson State University and several community partners will be giving away 1,500 free food boxes to the community on Saturday, university officials said Friday.
According to a news release, the university s Center for Community Engagement will host the food box giveaway starting at 9 a.m. at the Blackburn Middle School parking lot, located at 1311 West Pearl Street.
The boxes, which will include non-perishable food items, will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. According to the release, the drive-thru event aims to help families in need.
Jackson State University partnered with TDC Premier Trucking LLC, a trucking company in the southeast region, Amazon and Hosea Helps, an organization dedicated to investigating and raising awareness of families facing poverty.
Virtual tours offer students insight into stateâs history at the Two Mississippi Museums
Virtual tours offer students insight into stateâs history at the Two Mississippi Museums By Roslyn Anderson | April 6, 2021 at 6:49 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 8:17 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - For more than three years, buses from across the state and beyond brought students to the Mississippi Civil Rights and Mississippi History Museums.
That changed during the pandemic but now students are still roaming museum halls, now doing it virtually.
âThese were three of the men that were killed, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner,â said MS Civil Rights Museum Curator of Education Roosevelt Hawkins, while pointing to a wall dedicated to three Civil Rights workers killed in Philadelphia in 1964.