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Following the National Day of Prayer, Mission Mississippi (MM), a growing faith-based organization, released what they termed, “some good news.” During its 15th-Year Anniversary celebration and 2008 Mississippi Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast, MM told more than […]

Tricia Perry said she doesn’t have a musical bone in her body. After an early attempt to play the piano failed, she decided not to pursue a musical career. But what she lacks in musical […]

Life often brings hard knocks and rugged roads. But the dawn eventually peaks with moments of bliss if dreams are held and explored. Forty-five-year-old Erica D. Steele and her daughter, 25-year-old Armetha Steele, held fast […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Headstart center manager retires after 41 years Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Longevity has its place.” It certainly has had its place in the career history of Monzola […]

Special to The Mississippi Link In January of 2009, Jackson, Mississippi will open its doors to the luxurious Jackson Convention Complex. The complex’s management recently gave the media a hard-hat tour of the work in […]

Storm debris clean-up efforts have ‘finally’ begun, and Northeast Jackson residents are thrilled. “I’m just excited,” said Heidi Wright Friday morning as she and a neighbor watched workers rapidly remove debris from their street. She […]

Special to The Mississippi Link JACKSON, Miss. — Noting that the bill contains a series of “firsts” for Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour today signed legislation providing $2.5 billion in state funding for K-12 education in […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Since the brutal murder of Jackson State University student Natasha Norman in November 2007, there have been numerous crimes and/or police calls relating to domestic violence in some form or […]

While necessity may be the mother of invention, in the case of the Kilmichael Clinic in Mont-gomery County, necessity also mandates expansion. For more than 30 years, the Kilmichael Clinic has been operating out of […]

Once again domestic violence has struck a Jackson neighborhood, leaving be-hind the death of a 33 year-old Jackson woman and six grief-stricken children, relatives, neighbors and friends. According to reports, Tracy Collier of 2804 Brookside […]