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DeAnna Tisdale Johnson is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Jackson Advocate newspaper. Johnson joins a short list as one of the youngest publishers in the history of Black newspapers.

Johnson oversees a small staff and is diligently working to grow the newspaper to its former glory and beyond by digitizing the medium. She has been a published writer since the age of fourteen for the publication, where her father Charles Tisdale was owner and publisher until his death. Her mother, Alice Tisdale, is now publisher emeritus.

She is also a lyric soprano, lauded for her warmth and richness of voice. Her performances include a concert as the premier vocalist with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Anna Maurant in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, with lyrics by Langston Hughes; chorus and Prilepa (cover) in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades with Harvard’s Lowell House Opera; Foreign Princess from Dvorak’s Rusalka (Halifax Summer Opera Festival); Forester’s Wife and Fox (cover) in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, among other roles.

She took part in a groundbreaking, immersive theatre production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw in the role of Miss Jessel (Opera Brittenica) and has studied role preparation with the world-renowned Martina Arroyo in her Prelude to Performance program. Johnson has received a few honors over the past few years, including a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Leadership Award from the Mississippi Jazz Association.

She looks forward to continuing her passion for music by facilitating a summer classical music festival in her hometown within the next couple of years. She is most proud of her move back home to Jackson, Mississippi to be of service to the place she grew up.

DeAnna Tisdale attended Murrah High School, a school known for its diversity and prestigious academic programs, she was selected in both the academic and performing arts components of the Academic and Performing Arts Complex (APAC) progr

Jack Johnson grew up in a small town in Texas, but got to Tennessee as fast as he could. Jack has proudly called Middle Tennessee “home” for over thirty years after graduating from Texas State University with a degree in Education.

Jack and his wife Deanna, the Circuit Court Judge for the 21 Judicial District, raised their three adult children in Franklin. Jack and Deanna met over 30 years ago at a Young Republican function, sharing the same conservative values and the same dream of a future filled with faith and family.

First elected to the Tennessee State Senate in 2006, Jack Johnson has been a stalwart conservative leader and a fighter who helped turn the Tennessee State Senate red. Jack knows that conservative values are Tennessee values, which is why he always fights to lower taxes, defend constitutional rights, secure our southern border, protect our most vulnerable and ensure parents’ always have a voice in their children’s education.

Jack Johnson knows how to get things done for Tennessee and Williamson County. Above all, his tenure in the State Senate is marked by a defense of children and conservative principles.

An extremely effective conservative legislator, Jack Johnson is the prime Senate author of Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 of 2023, a model law for the rest of the country that protects children from life changing and mutilating medical procedures and hormone “treatments”.

He is also the prime Senate sponsor of the Child Rape Death Penalty Option Law, legislation which makes those that commit the most heinous of crimes – the rape of a child – eligible for the death penalty. Not only that, Jack is a leading author of laws that work to destroy the scourge of Child and Human Trafficking in our state.

Jack Johnson has also authored and passed bills that protect Tennesseans from being discriminated against by Woke Corporations, ensuring that no one will have their bank accounts taken away because of their political beliefs. Other imp

Music Videos|July 30, 2015 02:02 EDT By Kathryn Watson

As 'The Voice' has only gotten more and more popular on American television, contestants have learned that to speak the language of their target audience can only benefit them when it's time for votes to be counted. That being the case, it seems that contestants (and their coaches) are selecting songs that will appeal to Christians for their big moments on stage.

Craig Wayne Boyd, Koryn Hawthorne, Meghan Linsey and Deanne Johnson are just some of the recent performers on the show that have made this choice. The round-up below represents some of the most unforgettable moments in the history of the show, when contestants chose to showcase their abilities using Christian songs.

Craig Wayne Boyd, "The Old Rugged Cross"

Koryn Hawthorn, "How Great Thou Art"