electwilliesimmons.com, The Man Simmons graduated from Hinds County Agricultural High School, Utica Junior College and Alcorn State University and entered the workforce as a school teacher during the turbulent sixties. He was drafted into the […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, With a lively and capacity crowd inside the Renaissance DC Downtown Hotel in Washington, D.C. Sept. 12, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Benjamin F. Chavis […]
By Erica R. Williams, Special to The New Tri-State Defender, Memphis magazine has pulled its September issue after receiving backlash for what some have called a racist cover. The magazine featured caricatures of three mayoral […]
Special to The Mississippi Link, In Hinds County, primary election day got off to a rocky start, as early voters experienced broken machines, polling places opening late and missing names from some of the ballots. […]
NNPA Newswire, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, delivered the following opening statement at a full Committee hearing entitled, “Examining Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on Consumers, Investors […]
By Othor Cain, Editor, Sunday, Dec 15, marks the second time Indian designer Kaushal Vishukumar will showcase his fashions in Jackson. Vishukumar will be one of the featured designers in the annual charitable fashion show […]
Film Review by Kam Williams Olivia Colman Delivers Oscar-Winning Performance in Revisionist Costume Drama Queen Anne (1665-1714) was a sickly monarch whose dozen-year reign ran from 1702 to 1714. She was also married […]
By Othor Cain, Editor, Jennifer Riley Collins, who currently serves as the executive director for the ACLU in Mississippi, announced to a standing room only audience that she is seeking the state’s top legal post. […]
Book Review by Kam Williams Deep Roots How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen Princeton University Press Hardcover, $29.95 296 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978-0-691-17674-1 “Despite dramatic […]
By Hazel Trice Edney. TriceEdneyWire.com, Despite defeating six candidates to become the Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland, former NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous is still viewed as the underdog in his race against popular […]
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