It’s a wrap! The 2012 ESSENCE Music Festival has concluded, but not before it gave music enthusiasts a great four-day cultural experience in the Big Easy. This year’s event marked the 18th year for the festival that included a star-studded lineup complete with the likes of Steve Harvey,

The first time Josh Marks attempted to cook hotdogs, he burnt them to a crisp. Granted that he was a young boy living in Chicago at the time, but that experience was enough to make him say, “I don’t know if this cooking thing is for me.” After moving to Mississippi to attend Tougaloo College [...]

Savvy Lifestyle Magazine and Jb Entertainment Group is bringing Jackson, Mississippi its biggest Juneteenth celebration ever! Sunday, June 17th at the Mississippi Museum of Art from 3p.m.— 8p.m., enjoy a live soul food cooking demonstration with local TV show “It’s About You” and chef Nate Coleman, music, great food and a cultural event like no [...]

The Jackson Showboats, a semi-professional men’s  basketball team, officially introduce team and partners to the Jackson metro-area today. The Jackson Showboats is an  expansion team of the highly-competitive American Basketball Association league. Players who make it on the Jackson Showboats team have the opportunity to further their basketball career to the NBA, the NBA’s Development [...]

“Writing wasn’t a life long dream of mine’s, but I always felt like something was missing. I started thinking back to as early as elementary school, junior and high school and even some of my professors in college had always encouraged me to write; to really focus on writing more and to even try and [...]