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CHICAGO (AP) – Every year, the dedicated teacher would put together a bulletin board for Black History Month, honoring famous achievers. There was Martin Luther King Jr., of course. Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. […]

Over a hundred people gathered outside the home of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi on Jan. 20, to watch live President Barack Obama take the oath of office in Washington,  D.C.  Not letting the 40 […]

Special to The Mississippi Link When the metro area turned out for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade this morning, Saturday, Jan. 17, they saw a very familiar face leading the way: WLBT-TV3 Anchor […]

Special to the Mississippi Link TV ONE DEVOTES 24 HOURS TO INAUGURATION PROGRAMMING JANUARY 20 January 6, 2009, Silver Spring, MD — TV One will offer 24 hours of programming devoted to the Inauguration of […]

JACKSON, Miss. – Enduring cold temperatures Monday morning, members of the 100 Concerned Clergy of Jackson and other area clergy held a prayer vigil on the steps of City Hall for Mayor Frank Melton’s health. […]

ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Officials say Mayor Frank Melton has been released from a hospital after being treated for an undisclosed ailment. The 59-year-old mayor was checked into St. Dominic hospital in Jackson […]

JACKSON, MS (AP) – Mississippi lawmakers will be busy the next several days with the governor’s State of the State address, a briefing about the state economy and, barring a last-minute change of plans, a […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ The Mississippi Department of Public Safety is willing to pay about $250,000 a year to hire a new medical examiner at the state Crime Lab, but the money lawmakers approved to […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Barack Obama, a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, has appointed a number of African Americans with equally impressive academic credentials to high posts in his administration. Here […]

The Jackson City Council voted 4-1 to order the Melton administration to release the city’s 1099 forms. Members voting in favor of the documents’ release included Jeff Weill of Ward 1; President Leslie McLemore of […]