Health

AP IMPACT: If Ebola batters US, we are not ready

By JEFF DONN and GARANCE BURKE  The Associated Press The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly Ebola virus that even small clusters of cases could overwhelm parts of […]

Education

Black History Month is not dead

An open letter to the more than 42 million African Americans in these United States. By Pastor Jimmy Terry, Sr.

Editorials

Analysis: David Green was a storyteller, workers’ champion

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The late David Green filled two roles in the Mississippi House of Representatives. One was to cool off the combatants when the legislative wars became too heated. The other was to […]

Opinion

AP analysis: Hank Holmes oversaw release of Mississippi spy files

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Nearly two decades ago, Hank T. Holmes oversaw the release of records from the defunct Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a segregationist agency that spied on civil rights workers. Holmes and his staff […]

News

Should Mississippi adopt online voter registration?

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A new report by a nonpartisan public policy group says Americans spent an average of three minutes less standing in line to vote in the 2012 presidential election than they did […]