Jackie Turner

Jackie Turner is an artist and vendor for Street Sense Media. She is from Virginia and has been selling Street Sense since 2011. She loves reading and playing chess. For more information about Jackie Turner, visit her Vendor Profile.

Articles by Jackie

• Health care and education can help to decrease Black baby and mother mortality

• The power of a curfew

• All these shootings show America needs to return to basic principles

• No matter what people say, the job market today is strong

• Street Sense vendors and staff on the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade

• Getting housing assistance shouldn't limit where someone can live

• This is me

• African girl

• View

• How the House of Ruth helps women, children and families

• The power of love

• The flowers

• Drug conversation, a flash fiction story

• Only for a short time

• Two views on Biden's Supreme Court pick

• 2022-2023

• So much for public transportation

• My man Eric

• Expressing myself

• Joy

• Joy

• Friends

• Getting introduced with the human side of the world

• Universally good feelings

• Why Are People so Destructive?

• What do you tell your teens?

• Don't let America fade away

• Metro and Music

• Mothers

• Springtime in the city

• To Give or Not to Give

• Enjoying the Elderly

• How did I become homeless?

• Homelessness changed my worldview

• Ask the experts: You've lived through homelessness. How would you solve it?

• The Importance of Having a Social Life

• Depression

• When They See Me

• America's Citizens Must Come to Its Aid

• Put Love Before Hate

• Ray of Comfort

• Nervous and Changing America

• Who Am I?

• Watch Your Back

• Meditation on Snow

• Prays Praise Prays

• Happy Birthday Jesus!

• Dead Zone: The Other Side of the Bridge

• Helpless in Southeast

• Helpless in Southeast

• I Wonder About the World

• How Our Children Wake

• The Importance of Family

• Happy to be Able to Praise God

• How is America Moving?

• The Silent Killers Part 2

• The Silent Killers

• Happy Mother's Day 2015!

• A Day Selling Street Sense

• What's WITH Mayor Muriel Bowser?

• Plead to Ward Eight

• Tales from the Cold

• Do or Die Homeless

• Take the Time to Go Encourage Someone

• Good Weather Pays

• Ebola

• You Make my Day!

• Ugly is a State of Mind

• A Pause

• Why Do I Love People?

• It is HARD to Get a Job

• For Want of Chocolate

• Summertime in DC

• The Beautiful Summer

• I Know Hunger

• Street Sense, a Step Up

• Sticks and Stones

• Desire, Desire

• Beauty

• Glory, Glory, Hallelujah

• The Time of Miracles

• Being Seven in 2014

• Waiting on the Cherry Blossoms

• History

• Service Spotlight: The Listings Page

• Love for Life

• Happy Valentine's Day

• The Cold is Here

• Don't Fret About Sticking to Your Resolutions

• What People Say

• Pain in the Heart

• Thanking God

• The Need for Service: Many Paths to Homelessness

• A Modern Love Story, Pt 3

• A Modern Love Story (part 3)

• The Day

• Being Homeless in the Summer

• Young People Today

• Service Spotlights: Efforts

• Another Success Story

• Just Remember...