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[ April 30, 2026 ] The City of Jackson’s Water Takeover Local
[ April 30, 2026 ] Commentary: The Freedom Bench – Has justice been served in the 74% African American Town of Mt. Olive or are we still waiting? Local
[ April 30, 2026 ] Transparency is the Oxygen of Accountability – In Partnership with American Community Media – National Briefing Series National
[ April 22, 2026 ] Grand Opening of Campaign Headquarters of Scott Colom for U.S. Senate Local
[ April 22, 2026 ] Board of Trustees Selects Dr. Denise Jones Gregory as President of Jackson State University Education

The City of Jackson’s Water Takeover

By Othor Cain, Contributing Writer, The creation of a regional water authority in Jackson, Mississippi marks one of the most significant governance changes to the capital city’s infrastructure in decades. The effort grew out of […]

Commentary: The Freedom Bench – Has justice been served in the 74% African American Town of Mt. Olive or are we still waiting?

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, On Main Street – what locals call “The Boulevard” – in Mt Olive, Mississippi, there is a decorative display of chairs in front of a long vacant building. Chairs decorated […]

Transparency is the Oxygen of Accountability – In Partnership with American Community Media – National Briefing Series

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By Ayesha K. Mustafaa, Contributing Writer, “You Have the Right”: Utilizing and Preserving the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Protections for Citizens and Journalists The American Community Media’s (ACoM) weekly briefing for April 24, […]

Grand Opening of Campaign Headquarters of Scott Colom for U.S. Senate

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By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, The committee for Scott Colom for U.S. Senate held a grand opening at their campaign headquarters Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 811 East River Place in Jackson, MS from 1:00 P.M. […]

Board of Trustees Selects Dr. Denise Jones Gregory as President of Jackson State University

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The Mississippi Link Newswire, After an eight-month national search, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning has selected Dr. Denise Jones Gregory as the 14th president of Jackson State University (JSU). Gregory has […]

American Community Media’s National News Briefing … – “From Oil Shock to Checkout Lines: U.S.-Iran War drives global spike in consumer costs”

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By Ayesha K. Mustafaa, Contributing Writer, The American Community Media briefing Friday, April 17, 2026, continued in giving insight on the US/Iran War. The speakers of the one-hour briefing clarified the premise that this war […]

Gladys Marie Johnson marks ‘Four Score’ in ageless style

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, Oh, how the tea was spilled! Who would have ever guessed that the young woman from Fitzgerald, Georgia, who married a preacher and served as First Lady of Farish Street […]

Unforeseen consequences of a ban on Birthright Citizenship – In partnership with American Community Media – National Briefing Series

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, On his very first day in office — January 20, 2025 — President Donald Trump signed an executive order denying US citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents and “lawful […]

Former Sharecropper Delen Lee remembers his mother’s love since childhood

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By Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, Sharecropping was a post-Civil War Economy that emerged when the plantation economy and the need of labor collapsed. Largely a southern act of living and labor, the system […]

Commentary: Mainstream Media shows us who they value – I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do,” James Baldwin

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, With America deeply immersed in another vicious season of pro-whiteness, led by non-other than an impulse-driven American President, you would think that our mainstream media would be going the extra […]