By Richard Prince, TriceEdneyWire.com, When candidate Donald Trump appealed for African-American votes in the 2016 campaign, he famously asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?” According to U. S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), […]
By Othor Cain, Editor, Pelahatchie, is a small Mississippi town, with a population of 1,461, according to the 2000 census. It is 60 percent white and since 2017 has had its first African-American mayor. […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, With observances planned throughout March to commemorate Women’s History Month, a new report revealed that women are still mostly absent from newsrooms. The Women’s Media Center’s 2019 report […]
By Jesse Jackson, TriceEdneyWire.com, This past weekend, political leaders from across the country gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where peaceful demonstrators, attempting to […]
By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Like so many African- American churches, members of College Hill Baptist church consider every month Black History month; however, on February 21 C.J. Rhodes, pastor of Mt. Helm Baptist Church, helped […]
By Evelia Jones, Special to The Mississippi Link, It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, Director Spike Lee, who was famously passed over for Best Film and Best Director for his 1992 film “Malcolm X,” won his first Oscar at the 91st Annual […]
By Othor Cain, Editor, Jennifer Riley Collins, who currently serves as the executive director for the ACLU in Mississippi, announced to a standing room only audience that she is seeking the state’s top legal post. […]
By Jeremy Lazarus, TriceEdneyWire.com, To condemn or to forgive? That question is dividing African-American clergy, congregants and others dealing with the revelations that Virginia’s governor and attorney general decades ago wore racist blackface while pretending […]
By Othor Cain, Editor, The slate of democrats running for statewide office this year is quite impressive by many accounts and Tuesday, another well-known democrat qualified to run for secretary of state. Former longtime Hattiesburg […]
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