During a standing-room-only meeting in downtown Jackson, Latrice Rogers — the entrepreneur known for her role on the Oprah Winfrey Network reality TV show the “Belle Collective” — read aloud the email addresses of residents who have complained about her one-year-old restaurant, Fondren Taste Bar and Grill.

In an attempt to clear the air, Rogers said she’d reached out to each one of them.

Upon hearing her email, Jennifer Baughn, an architecture historian who lives down the street from Taste, in the otherwise sleepy north Fondren neighborhood off Meadowbrook Road, spoke up.

“That’s me,” she said so members of the Jackson Planning Board could hear her. “I’ve never received an email.”

“But I have it here,” Rogers insisted as other residents began to say that they, too, had not heard from h

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