Jenna Ross

4 days ago | visualcapitalist.com | Jenna Ross

Workers often pay high costs to send money across borders due to limited competition, poor price visibility, and, in some cases, underdeveloped payment systems. Tanzania has the highest average cost of $115 on a $200 remittance. Seven of the 15 most expensive countries for sending remittances are in Africa. For workers sending money home to their family, every dollar counts. Unfortunately, the total cost they pay on a cross-border payment, also known as a remittance, can be high.

1 week ago | nola.com | Jenna Ross

"Sinners" is set in Clarksdale, Mississippi. But the city has no movie theater, so the bloody, bluesy box-office hit couldn't be screened there. A public plea has changed that. After a resident penned an open letter to "Sinners" director Ryan Coogler, inviting him to visit Clarksdale, Warner Bros. Pictures will host public screenings of the horror film in the city of 14,000 this week.

2 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Jenna Ross

Early in the film "Sinners," a buoyant, bloody box-office hit filmed in Louisiana and set in the Mississippi Delta of the 1930s, the audience encounters a small house, shaded by oak trees, its front boards stained blue. That blue, an earthy turquoise, shows up again and again through the movie, a protective force in a world populated by vampires.

4 weeks ago | nola.com | Jenna Ross

WALLACE — The Whitney Plantation tells the story of slavery, one building at a time. A church, a cabin, a jail. Soon, if executive director Ashley Rogers has her way, through the plantation store. On a muggy afternoon, she and John Blokker, director of historic preservation and facilities at the 250-acre plantation, stepped inside the store, which operated until 1975. They moved left to right, front and back, discussing the repairs in progress and the work left to be done.

1 month ago | nola.com | Jenna Ross

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