By Jeff Jardine, Featured, Minority Veterans, Calvet Connect, One summer afternoon in the late 1950s, eight-year-old Phillip Willis Jr. took a break from mowing lawns at a home in Jackson, Mississippi. Having worked up a […]
By By Ayesha K. Mustafaa, Contributing Writer, African-American history is living history, building upon what has been established as well as establishing new blocks to build upon. Mississippi is profoundly rich in African-American history, being […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, Golfing superstar Tiger Woods was reportedly in serious condition in a Los Angeles area hospital after a single-car accident Tuesday, Feb. 23. The website TMZ displayed pictures on […]
BALTIMORE — To help students avoid crippling college debt, former United Parcel Service executive and Morgan State University alumnus Calvin Tyler is increasing his $5 million commitment to his alma mater by $15 million to fund […]
Washington, D.C. native Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson epitomizes Black history during a month when we remember historic African-American figures and their accomplishments. Johnson achieved greatness inside the boxing ring. He became the first African-American fighter […]
A Mississippi institution is receiving a grant to advance its work in teaching people about the legacy of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago whose lynching by white people in Mississippi in 1955 spurred […]
By CALEB MCCLUSKEY, Enterprise-Journal MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) _ Neither rain, snow nor waterless pipes could prevent Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center from helping patients in need, as employees carried buckets of water drawn from a […]
Have you ever considered how many kinds of paper we use and handle every day? Newspaper, office-printed paper, tickets, bills, banknotes, receipts, books, napkins, bags, food packaging, toilet paper, and health certificates (especially during the […]
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