By Aaron Morrison, Associated Pressca, Darkness set in for Natasha Blunt well before Hurricane Ida knocked out power across Louisiana. Months into the pandemic, she faced eviction in New Orleans. She lost her banquet-hall job. […]
By Gail H.M. Brown, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, “No! It didn’t hurt!” D’Anthony Ellis, a 7th-grader at Powell Midd le School, Jackson, Miss., told The Mississippi Link. Accompanied by his mother, Chandi Ellis, D’Anthony Ellis had […]
By Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Ph.D, Contributing Writer, The Biden-Harris Administration’s investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities is unprecedented. While striving to “build these colleges up better than they were before,” they delivered through COVID-19 […]
The Associated Press, Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when seven vehicles plunged into a deep hole where a dark, rural highway collapsed as Hurricane Ida blew through Mississippi. Torrential […]
By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, On Sunday afternoon, while the community was on edge due to the wind and rain threats of Hurricane Ida, The Metro Jackson Area Chapters of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) was […]
By Gail H.M. Brown, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, While naysayers were telling him that they do not know why he would want to stay in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago, evacuee Thaddeus Moten, a […]
Hurricane Ida is set to hit the U.S. northern Gulf Coast as a dangerous major hurricane today. FEMA is tracking the danger of life-threatening storm surge along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida […]
By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, The Hinds County race for sheriff has begun and several candidates are trying to get an opportunity to fill the big footprints of former sheriff, Lee Dan Vance Jr. who passed […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, While he and his wife remain hospitalized in a Chicago hospital after positive Covid tests, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told the Black Press that he remains vigilant in […]
By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Marshand Crisler was appointed interim sheriff by The Hinds County Board of Supervisors in a special meeting Monday. He replaces former Sheriff Lee Vance who died from cardiorespiratory failure two weeks […]
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