[ad_1] Mississippi Today won the inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism for its coverage of the ongoing state welfare scandal investigation in the face of a lawsuit…
[ad_1] April 14, 1952 Ralph Ellison wrote “Invisible Man” for Random House. Credit: Courtesy of Random House Ralph Ellison’s only novel, “Invisible Man,” confronted many issues facing Black Americans and…
[ad_1] April 13, 1873 New Colfax Massacre memorial Credit: Courtesy of Heart of Louisiana On Easter Sunday, after Reconstruction Republicans won the Louisiana governor’s race, a group of white Democrats…
[ad_1] April 12, 1864 Drawing of the Fort Pillow massacre by Frank Leslie Credit: Wikipedia The Fort Pillow Massacre took place when 2,500 members of a Confederate cavalry attacked the…
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[ad_1] Hezekiah Watkins was 13 when he was arrested in 1961 for entering a white-only Greyhound bus station in Jackson, sent to state prison and housed on death row. Watkins…
[ad_1] The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed and remanded a decision ordering the release of federal benefit recipient data to the federally appointed receiver JXN Water.…
[ad_1] The day after Tim Henderson finished third in Jackson’s mayoral primary, garnering 3,499 votes, the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel was planning to pack up his office at the…
[ad_1] April 11, 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act. Credit: Library of Congress A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., President Lyndon…
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