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.
Opinion
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 […]
News
What is a slur? Redskins case forces us to evaluate what tips the scales
The Associated Press Something is happening just beneath the fight over the name of a certain Washington, D.C., pro football team: America is working through the process of determining what is — or is not […]
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 […]
Editorials
AP analysis: Mississippi NAACP challenge to county elections ruled moot
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A U.S. Supreme Court decision that gives counties in the South the power to draw their own election boundaries without federal oversight has raised fears that local Mississippi officials will deliberately […]
Editorials
Unfair to grade Mississippi schools when the criteria changes midstream (Other views)
The Associated Press Mississippi’s public schools face unintended, unfair and unhelpful outcomes in state accountability rankings if the U.S. Department of Education does not approve the state’s plan to freeze those rankings during the transition […]
Business
AP analysis: Fight over Mississippi’s Baseload Act could affect Entergy
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has another utility that would like, at least someday, to collect some money for a power plant it hasn’t built yet. Mississippi Power Co. has already raised rates for customers […]
Editorials
Botched execution in Oklahoma may have impact in Mississippi (Other views)
The Associated Press Last week’s botched execution in Oklahoma has again focused the nation’s attention on the death penalty. Although support for capital punishment remains high in Mississippi, it is eroding steadily around the nation. […]
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 […]
Editorials
Some state senators need to show up for work
The Associated Press Sen. Melanie Sojourner, the first-term state senator from Adams County, seems to have forgotten an important commitment she made; showing up for work shouldn’t be optional. Senate records show Sen. Sojourner has […]