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Special to The Mississippi Link Kay Crotwell, director of swimming instructors at Courthouse Racquet & Fitness, has organized a team of six volunteer instructors to provide swimming lessons free of charge to the members of […]

NEW YORK – Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation’s first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP and advised […]

LOS ANGELES (NNPA) – Historically the Black press has been covering Black artists, entertainers and other well-known personalities when no  one else would, primarily out of a sense of duty, responsibility and pride in order […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the […]

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Titans quarterback Vince Young didn’t expect to speak Saturday during his mentor’s funeral. He wound up summing up the emotional day with just a few words. “Steve was like a hero […]

LOS ANGELES – The world’s greatest entertainer Michael Jackson made one final jaw-dropping and tear- drawing appearance when Andrae Crouch’s gospel group brought him into the Staples Center to the melody of “Soon and Very […]

July 3 is a day to be remembered by those who observed inaugural festivities for Jackson’s third-term mayor, the Honorable Harvey Johnson Jr. The 8 a.m. prayer service at north Jackson’s New Hope Baptist Church […]

Associated Press Steve McNair came off the bench in the first game of his freshman season and rallied Alcorn State to a victory against Grambling State. So began one of the great careers in the […]

The town of Byram finally became an official city Monday, June 22. The road to becoming a city was met with much resistance from the City of Jackson. That same day Nick Tremonte was sworn […]

Special to the Mississippi Link Mayor Elect Harvey Johnson will be holding a Transition Team meeting Tuesday, June 23 at 6 p.m. in room 134 of the College of Business Building at Jackson State University. […]