Jackson, Mississippi — Consider This Your Warning. RAATV Drops the Opening Sequence for "The Access Index: Jackson" Ahead of June 19 Network Premiere.

There is no narration in the opening. No setup. The first thing you see is a deep-blue brick wall stamped WELCOME TO JACKSON. The camera lifts, glides past the Mississippi State Capitol, and lands on six women walking lakeside. They are not in a hurry. They are not posing. They look like they own the city, because in many ways they do.

That is the point.

"ACCESS GETS YOU IN. THE INDEX DECIDES IF YOU STAY."

Jara Everett, who created the show, executive produces, and showruns, has been protective about how The Access Index: Jackson gets introduced to the world. The 30-second opener is the first finished footage anyone outside the production has seen. It is intentional that you meet the women before you hear them say a word.

"I kept telling the team — this isn't a sizzle, it's a thesis," Everett said. "Anybody can cut a hype reel. I wanted thirty seconds that made it clear these are real businesswomen, that this isn't about who screams loudest, and that we are not asking anyone for permission to take up this much space. If you watch the opening and you don't get it, the show isn't for you."

Larry Ingram, the show's co-creator and producer, oversaw the sequence with Everett.

The Cast

The women in the opening are not actors. They are six working entrepreneurs from Jackson, Mississippi, every one of them running an established business before any cameras showed up.

Dwanna Stanley is the Managing Broker and Owner of The Agency Haus, the largest Black-owned real estate firm in the state of Mississippi. She has more than 100 agents on her roster and is moving the firm toward expansion into Texas and Atlanta. She is, by any reasonable measure, the most powerful Black female broker in the state.

Melanie Sanders was crowned Miss Atlanta in 2005 and has been in the public eye since. She acts, she models, and she runs Luxe Life Public Relations, a Jackson-based PR firm that handles clients most people in town will never know about. When Melanie is involved, you usually don't realize until it's already done.

Amanda Williamson owns Pretty Slayer Hair Salon, the appointment every high-profile woman in Jackson tries to get. She is also a cranial prosthetics specialist who designs custom human-hair wigs for women with alopecia. The two sides of her practice — glamour, and the harder kind of care — are both very real, and she does them in the same week.

Yolanda "Flanna" Leggins is a realtor and entrepreneur, and the co-owner of the largest-selling dirt pit in the state. You read that right. Dirt. The business is enormous, and Flanna runs it the way other people run boutique hotels.

Shun England is the top-producing realtor in Jackson. Quietly. She does not need to tell you, and she rarely does.

Kenxavia "ItGirlKen" Smith built her name as a makeup artist and is now releasing music as a hip hop artist, with a plan that goes well past Mississippi. The grind, in her words, is mapped.

Premiere

The Access Index: Jackson premieres Friday, June 19, 2026 at 7 PM Central. The show is also the launch title for RAATV as a network.

RAATV goes live on Android (Google Play) and on the web at raatv.net on premiere day. Apps for Apple TV, Samsung Smart TVs, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV are rolling out across summer 2026.

The opening sequence is up now on the RAATV YouTube channel and at raatv.net.

Credits

Created, executive produced, and showrun by Jara Everett. Co-created and produced by Larry Ingram.

About RAATV

RAATV (Rich Azz Auntie TV) is a Chicago-based streaming network founded by Jara Everett, a writer, producer, director, and cinematographer trained at Columbia College Hollywood. Her work draws from Shelly Garrett, Tyler Perry, and Maya Angelou. RAATV produces and distributes original reality, scripted, and documentary content built around Black voices and Black ownership, and it does not soften anything in the edit. The Access Index: Jackson is the network's first original series.

About LUX PLE Media

LUX PLE Media is the in-house communications and publicity company representing RAATV and its talent. Press inquiries, screener access, broadcast bookings, and interview requests should go to press@luxplemedia.com.