Editorials
My thoughts about Ferguson
By Bishop Ronnie Crudup No doubt the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri will go down as one of the top stories of 2014. It is a story which has captured the attention of […]
Opinion
Business
Can space industry survive 2 explosions in 4 days?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It’s what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin […]
Health
5 reasons the United States is not prepared to deal with widespread Ebola outbreak
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 the system, according […]
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 […]
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 […]