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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 Associated Press Mississippi lawmakers are beginning their 2009 session with a nod to the past, convening at noon Tuesday for a brief ceremony in the freshly renovated Old Capitol in downtown Jackson. “The building […]

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 […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Focusing on prevention, enforcement, and treatment, the Senate unanimously approved the formation of a Senate Drug Policy Committee. Senate Resolution 1 creates a committee to develop legislation, policies, and programs […]

Jackson Public Schools will hold a dedication program for the naming of three new schools at 11:30 a.m., Friday, January 16, in the Supreme Court Chambers on the second floor of the New Capitol. A […]

Special to The Mississippi Link WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2008 – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of CBS News journalist and former NABJ board member Mark Griffith, found dead of […]

Associated Press – January 6, 2009 3:04 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters has given up his law license over an undisclosed complaint. Peters has been linked by […]

Received by Newsfinder from AP HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – Funeral services are set Wednesday for the son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., who died defending his family from the Klan in 1966. […]

The Mississippi Link The late Michael “Mikey” Johnson, a talented Murrah High School athlete whose “first love” was baseball, is noted for making the decisive free-throws in the final seconds of Murrah’s win of the […]

Gail M. Brown, Editor When motorists drive past Black’s Chapel Church and Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home on Robinson Road and see numerous cars in the parking lots, most of them generally assume that there is […]