Education

2008 seemed to have been the year of “change.” And a major change is exactly what the students, faculty and community of Lanier High School got when the Jackson Public School District announced the new […]

Special the The Mississippi Link ITTA BENA – Mississippi Valley State University faculty and staff heard from their new leader on Monday as Donna H. Oliver, Ph.D, delivered her first official University address as president […]

Ascot Media Houston, TX, January 6, 2009 — Army Brigadier General A.J. Tata is giving every dime of royalties from his new book, Sudden Threat (Variance Publishing) to the United Services Organization Hospital Services Fund […]

November 21, 2008 JPS School Board President Delmer C. Stamps has been elected to a two-year term on the Mississippi School Boards Association’s Board of Directors. Elections to the MSBA board were conducted by a […]

Special to The Mississippi Link From Nov. 7-9, 2008, the Caribbean nation of Antigua & Barbuda will welcome a distinguished array of African-American, Canadian, British and Caribbean authors, publishers and literary agents to its shores […]

Jackson State University’s Jake Ayers Institute for Research will hold its second annual conference this month for women of color in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. The mini symposium, “Advancing the Status of […]

Mississippi Link JACKSON, Miss.—Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore of Jackson was honored with a Doctor of Public Service during Millsaps College’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 10. McLemore was recognized as a leader and public servant […]

Special to The Mississippi Link On April 26 at 10:38 a.m., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated added the 1008th chapter to the illustrious sisterhood. The Madison County (MS) Alumnae Chapter became the 208th alumnae chapter […]

In years past, the Carroll County Public School System had been plagued with misfortune. In 2007, one of their most promising alumni, Rodney Lockhart, an Ole Miss track star, was shot and killed as he […]