[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 —…
[ad_1] Under the shadow of a rushed and unusually chaotic budget process last month, Mississippi legislators approved nearly $700,000 for a pilot program to help poor defendants in one of…
[ad_1] JUNE 18, 1949 Ada Sipuel Fisher, right, is represented by attorneys Amos T. Hall, left, and Thurgood Marshall, center. Credit: Painting by Mike Wimmer that hangs in the Oklahoma…
[ad_1] A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be held June 21 at 7 p.m. at the Strand Theatre in Vicksburg as part of a fundraising…
[ad_1] JXN Water manager Ted Henifin told U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate Tuesday that the utility plans to sue the neglectful apartment complexes that owe millions between them on…
