Mar 16, 2016: Donna Ladd: Jackson Free Press: Trump’s Politically Correct Call for Bigotry, Hate
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June 25, 2015: Jackson Free Press: The Rest of Our Race Story
While I worked on the film—at first wanting to prove those students wrong—I began to interview people that I would not have otherwise encountered, Jackson Free Press editor Donna Ladd among them. I honestly had never heard anyone talk so knowledgeably about Mississippi's history and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. It was challenging, to say the least, to have to listen to someone whose views and understandings were so different from mine. 
May 27, 2015: Jackson Free Press: Congrats to Staff and Freelancers: It’s Award Season!
So, first of all, cheers to our staff and freelancers who got their names called this year. Donna Ladd and R.L. Nave lead a list of great contributors to these award-winning pieces, not the least of whom is former editor-turned-freelancer Ronni Mott, who once again helped lead the team for a first place in Public Service from SPJ for her coverage of the Michelle Byrom case. |
Feb 27, 2015: Jackson Free Press: Dr. Sunny Fridge
After the film, Beth Orlansky, advocacy director for the Mississippi Center for Justice, will moderate a panel discussion. Speakers for the panel include Dierdre Payne with the League of Women Voters of the Jackson Area; Donna Ladd, editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press; Robert Shaffer, president and secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi AFL-CIO; and Dr. Sunny Fridge, a former producer, reporter and anchor who has taught in the mass communications department at Jackson State University for 14 years.
After the film, Beth Orlansky, advocacy director for the Mississippi Center for Justice, will moderate a panel discussion. Speakers for the panel include Dierdre Payne with the League of Women Voters of the Jackson Area; Donna Ladd, editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press; Robert Shaffer, president and secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi AFL-CIO; and Dr. Sunny Fridge, a former producer, reporter and anchor who has taught in the mass communications department at Jackson State University for 14 years.
May 16, 2012: Donna Ladd: Jackson Free Press: Boys Will Be Boys
Donna K. Ladd (born October 9, 196 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is an American investigative journalist who helped create The Jackson Free Press, an award-winning freely distributed newsweekly. She has received international recognition for her racial reconciliation efforts in Mississippi and nationally, helping bring "cold" civil rights cases to justice and for her coverage of Frank Melton, the controversial mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.