Year: 2008

Featuring Dr. Harold Kroto The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 November 21, 2008 (Friday) 9:00 AM Arrive at Jackson State University Campus (Rose McCoy Auditorium) Meet with audience for autograph or photos 9:30 AM Lecture […]

Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. gathered in Jackson recently to attend the sorority’s Support Our Sisterhood (S.O.S.) Retreat. Deltas from the sorority’s Southern Region which includes: Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he told […]

CHICAGO – President-elect Obama said Friday that the country is facing the greatest economic challenge in a lifetime and “we’re going to have to act swiftly to resolve it.” In his first news conference since […]

As the sun faded over Mississippi Nov. 3, election eve, Former Gov. Musgrove and members of his staff were completing an Eight-City Blitz around the state, echoing a need for change in Washington. The Musgrove […]

From: Supervisor Robert Graham Hinds County Supervisor District One Voting Precinct #83 Relocation Jackson, Miss., October 15, 2008 — The Hinds County Election Commission has received final approval from the Justice Department to relocate voting […]

CHICAGO – A top FBI official said Monday that a body found in an SUV is believed to be that of Jennifer Hudson’s missing 7-year-old nephew, the focus of a desperate search since the Oscar […]

WASHINGTON — Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives […]

Thousands of people with different backgrounds and stories recently gathered and prepared to fight against the threats of a deadly disease. The American Cancer Society (ACS) held its third annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer […]