On this day in 1909
[ad_1] JUNE 22, 1909 Katherine Dunham Credit: Wikipedia Esteemed choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham was born in Joliet, Illinois. For more than 30 years, she directed the Katherine Dunham…
[ad_1] JUNE 22, 1909 Katherine Dunham Credit: Wikipedia Esteemed choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham was born in Joliet, Illinois. For more than 30 years, she directed the Katherine Dunham…
[ad_1] JUNE 21, 1964 A group of more than 20 Klansmen killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, south of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three men…
[ad_1] Over the next 13 years, Mississippi is expected to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from companies that profited off Mississippians with opioid addiction. Public health workers and families…
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[ad_1] Sophia Slade uses a drill during the FORGE Girls Construction Camp at East Mississippi Community College’s Golden Triangle Campus, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Mayhew, Miss. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi…
[ad_1] JUNE 20, 1960 Credit: Wikipedia Renowned singer and actor Harry Belafonte was awarded an Emmy Award for his television special, “Tonight with Harry Belafonte.” He was the first Black…
[ad_1] As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so jaundiced he appeared to glow in the dark. The…
[ad_1] The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re killing my friend.” Those are the people he’s grown close to before witnessing their executions — a dozen…
[ad_1] Laughter erupts from the kitchen of Stewpot’s Teen Center as rising sixth grader Jamila Jeffries cuts a raw potato into thin slices. It’s lunch time, and she’s surrounded by…
[ad_1] JUNE 19, 1865 Credit: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued two years earlier, it wasn’t until this date —…