Education

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is offering $900 million in grants to states and school districts to turn around low-performing schools — but recipients would have to take drastic action, such as replacing principals, reopening […]

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) – The Meridian Public School District has fired its superintendent. Charlie Kent had held the district’s top administrative job since July 2008. School board vice president Don Evans announced Friday that Kent […]

BATON ROUGE — The  18th Annual National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS) Conference was recently held  in Baton Rouge, La. The Crowne Plaza Executive Center Hotel flourished with young scholars from around the globe, […]

JACKSON, Miss. – “Healthcare is not about health. Healthcare is about defeating Obama, and making him a one-term president,” said Ambassador Andrew Young at Jackson State University, Thursday, Feb. 25. “Everybody needs healthcare!” he added, […]

BILOXI, Miss. – More than 250 students from across the United States and Canada will volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast during their spring break. The youth volunteers are participants of […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Amy Bishop kept quiet about a violent episode in her past around colleagues and students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. But there was one personal issue she didn’t mind loudly […]