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Man Kills 2, Leaves 7 injured in TN Church Shooting
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities were investigating why an apparent stranger entered a church and opened fire during a children’s performance of “Annie,” killing two, including a man witnesses called a hero for shielding others […]
Education
JSU hosting symposium for women of color in STEM fields
Jackson State University’s Jake Ayers Institute for Research will hold its second annual conference this month for women of color in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. The mini symposium, “Advancing the Status of […]
Health
Guidelines highlight key differences between child and adult stroke
Medical News Today Statement Highlights: • This is the first guidance on stroke in children from the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association. • Stroke risk, symptoms and treatment in children are different from those […]
Health
Abnormal sleep patterns in women linked to stroke
Reuters Health NEW YORK – Sleep patterns in middle-aged women can increase their risk for stroke, researchers in the United States have found. The greatest increase in stroke risk -70 percent – was noted among […]
Opinion
Obama travels abroad
Barack Obama embarks on a serious foreign policy initiative with his trip to Europe and the Middle East, to bolster his foreign policy credentials. To that end, he gave a major speech on his global […]
Opinion
Mississippi, built on the backbones of blacks and native Americans
Mississippi students are being neglected the powerfulness and fullness of their history. It is vitally important that the contours of our state be highly publicized. Many people living all across the nation have come from […]
Health
Knowledge Is Power
Special to The Mississippi Link Stroke is the third-leading cause of death among African Americans, and more than 100,000 will suffer one this year. But African Americans can get help to reduce their stroke risk […]
News
AHA and The Mississippi Link partner to fight nation’s No. 3 killer
Special to The Mississippi Link Stroke is the nation’s No. 3 killer and a leading cause of severe, long-term disability, and The Mississippi Link is honored to partner with the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Greater […]
Opinion
HIV-AIDS on the rise among teens and the elderly
Many of us are still struggling to understand the difference bet-ween HIV and AIDS. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus that is contracted, mainly by exposure to blood, semen or vaginal fluids of an […]