Community Stories

Community Stories, Justice

“There is always hope”

by Joanna Holbert

“Goodwill gave me a career.” That’s something Jessica Maxwell-Flowers never dreamed possible…

Community Stories, Justice

The business of grace

by Joanna Holbert

Heath Ferguson is in the business of offering grace. Why? Because grace…

Community Stories, Justice

From addiction and despair to a new life

by Joanna Holbert

“I’m a junkie. This is my life.” That’s what Mary Hirsch thought…

Community Stories, Work

“We are in the community treating the people who live here”

by Joanna Holbert

In rural South Mississippi a patient enters his primary care clinic. He…

Community Stories, Justice

A new life after addiction and prison

by Joanna Holbert

“I was a functioning addict.” That’s how Julie Crutcher describes herself during…

Community Stories, Work

Barrier to entry. Barrier to healthcare.

by Joanna Holbert

As a young girl entering college, Sarah Catherine Morrow had a picture…

Community Stories, Work

My nurse practitioner saved my life. Twice.

by Empower Mississippi

In 2016, I walked cautiously into my local nurse practitioner’s office. I…

Community Stories, Justice

Coffee and Conversation: Grant Callen with New Orleans Saints LB Demario Davis

by Joanna Holbert

Say the name Demario Davis, and people rightfully think of one of…

Community Stories, Work

Kristie Rushing

by Empower Mississippi

What do you think of when you think of Mississippi? Most people…

Community Stories, Justice

Two life sentences for seven boxes of Sudafed

by Joanna Holbert

Three strikes and he’s out. But does the punishment fit the crime?…

Community Stories, Justice

Released after a decade, and time is quickly running out for Lori Griffin

by Joanna Holbert

“It goes against the very essence of what you want to reform….

Community Stories, Education

Save Our ESA: ‘Families depend on it.’

by Joanna Holbert

“I don’t want to think of what Landon’s life might look like…