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‘We Needed a Deion Sanders': Jackson State United a City on its Way to a SWAC Title

JACKSON, Miss. — Near the heart of downtown Jackson, customers park their cars along the sidewalk outside of Dynastics Screen Printing. The longtime company—tucked in between two small Black-owned businesses—is Mississippi’s oldest black-owned screen-printing entity that has served Jackson customers with their promotional needs and screen printing for more than three decades.

As customers enter the store—one that is not as big as three linen closets in length—customers are greeted by a rack of blue, white and red hoodies, sweatshirts, long sleeve T-shirts that are neatly situated next to a framed Clarion Ledger front page sports article of the Tigers’ 34–27 double-overtime loss to Southern University on Dec.