If you haven’t heard the news, West Jackson will be featured in the upcoming issue of BOOM Jackson magazine. By featured, I mean front page featured and positively featured. Wait a minute, a positive feature of West Jackson on the front page of a publication? Yep. Welcome to to the NEW West Jackson. While we anxiously wait for BOOM’s Autumn 2010 issue to hit news stands (which should be sometime this week), take a look at the “Mentoring Men” article that was published in their Summer 2010 issue.

If you’d like to check out “Mentoring Men” in a hard copy or the online flip version, you can find it on page 21.

Finally, make sure you GRAB A COPY OF BOOM JACKSON when it hits the news stands.  It’s free, so why not get a copy?

-Curnis Upkins, III

from BOOM Jackson When rambunctious 11-year-old Jason Goree, son of a recently divorced mother, Janace Harvey Goree, met the dean of the business school one Saturday morning in Cooley’s Jackson State office,he had no idea his life would change because of it. Jacksonians couldn’t have had any idea the city’s business landscape would eventually begin to change because of that meeting, either. William Cooley’s business finesse didn’t come by way of … Read More

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