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By Jane Kennedy, TriceEdneyWire.com, Nearly five years after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City policeman, recklessly choked Eric Garner to death, he is just now facing prosecution at a disciplinary trial that may – or […]

By Frederick H. Lowe, TriceEdneyWire.com, Black billionaire Robert F. Smith has awarded the class of 2019 at Morehouse College for Men a gift graduating seniors and their parents won’t ever forget. Smith, founder and chair […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire, The Mississippi Chapter of the American Associations of Blacks in Energy (AABE) held the Annual Scholarship Awards Reception at The Hilton Hotel in Jackson. Graduating seniors from across Mississippi received scholarships […]

By Linnea Crowther, Guest Writer, Unita Blackwell was a civil rights activist who rose from an early life as a sharecropper to become an advisor to seven presidents and the first black woman mayor in […]

By Alice Bernstein, AllianceofEthicsandArt.org, This year marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of our nation’s Transcontinental Railroad (TCR), an engineering feat considered one of the wonders of the world. From 1863-1869 two railroad companies […]

By Othor Cain, Editor, Jazz artist Pam Confer is one step closer to her dream, of making her recently released song, “Mississippi Beautiful,” become the state’s anthem. Last week, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant extended a […]

By Jeffory McKenzie, Guesst Writer, For the past 44 years, on the 1st Sunday in the month of May, at the annual Loyalty Day Program, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its auxiliary, at […]

By Paulette Hayes Patton, Guest Writer, As hundreds of students rushed out of the gates of Tougaloo College last week, hundreds of former students rushed to come in; both to celebrate. The former, to celebrate […]

The Mississippi Link Newswire, The Madison County Board of Education proudly announces the selection of Charlotte Seals as Superintendent of Education. “Mrs. Seals is an outstanding educator and leader with a proven track-record of moving […]

By Frederick H. Lowe, TriceEdneyWire.com, Facebook and Instagram have banned Minister Louis Farrakhan, the highly regarded leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, after lumping him together with paranoid white right-wing nuts who spew racial […]