Entertainment
Month: April 2018
Education
‘Right Stuff, Tiger Tuff’: 50th anniversary pays tribute to past, present ROTC cadets
By L.A. Warren Jackson State University During the 50th-year celebration of JSU’s ROTC program, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Reuben D. Jones reminded JSU Army ROTC cadets they would live uncommon lives under a common banner while […]
News
Bunch welcomed to deliver 2018 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture
The Mississippi Link Newswire Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, was the 2018 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series speaker. The free event was held […]
News
Trump gives peace a chance in deciding to meet with North Korea’s leader
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. Founder and President of Rainbow PUSH Coalition President Donald Trump’s decision to meet with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong -un opens new possibilities. Trump’s critics suggest Trump has given Kim […]
News
Jones “Bruh” Brown celebrated his 100th birthday
April 21 (born April 17, 1918) • Farmhaven, Miss. Bruh’s wife Ada invited family and friends to gather in the Farmhaven campground dining hall to wish him well. His Crossroads Church of God family was […]
Religion
P R E S E R V E D: God’s pruning
By Shewanda Riley Columnist A few years ago, I attended the University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference in Denton, Texas where television journalist Soledad O’Brien was a keynote speaker. As part of her […]
Religion
Giving back at the park
by scouts and community groups Ineva May-Pittman Park • Jackson, Miss. • April 21 By Jackie Hampton Publisher Words of thanks from the homeless, needy and those that proclaimed they were just temporarily down on […]
News
Police: Missing Alabama boy found safe in Mississippi
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Police say the missing 5-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted from a bus stop in Alabama has been found in Mississippi. Sylacauga Police said in a Facebook post Monday that […]
News
Mississippi dedicates marker to beach integration protests
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi is memorializing the site of a protest that led to the racial integration of the state’s public beaches. Officials on Tuesday dedicated a marker noting the site of the Biloxi […]
Education
New Mississippi superintendent coming from Alaska
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – A New Orleans native who worked in Alaska for the past two decades has been named the new superintendent of a northwest Mississippi school district. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports […]