Month: August 2019

By Othor Cain, Editor, It was a day that delivered change. Tuesday, August 27, several run-off races were held for candidates that did not receive the required 50 percent plus one vote to be declared […]

By Othor Cain, Editor, One thing the City of Jackson isn’t lacking – places to eat. From fine dining to local hole in the walls, on any given day in the state’s capital city you […]

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press, Mississippi candidates working toward Aug. 27 party primary runoffs have two important tasks: keep the base motivated and find new voters. People that day will determine the Republican nominees […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire,   An informal gathering of National Newspaper Publishers Association board members and publishers has galvanized the 79-year-old organization and has served to renew its commitment as the voice of Black America. […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire, In response to the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that recently occurred in central Mississippi, the Jackson (MS) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated collected supplies August 18 to support immigrant families […]

By Othor Cain, Editor, In a three-person race that became personal, brutal and sometimes exhausting, Jody Owens, former managing attorney at the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was elected as the next […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire, Toni D. Cooley, chief executive officer of Systems Electro Coating, Systems Automotive Interiors, Systems Consultants Associates and Systems IT, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire, A distinguished attorney and community leader for decades, La’Verne Edney serves as the new president of the Mississippi Bar Foundation. A 1996 graduate of the Mississippi College School of Law, Edney […]

By Rogelio V. Solis and Jeff Amy, Associated Press, U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Aug. 7, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. […]