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Jacqueline Hampton | Mississippi Link, NNPA Speaks at Mississippi VA Black History Program.    

By Othor Cain, Editor, Don’t call it a comeback, call it the Biden affect. Instead of the word momentum, how-about Jo-mentum? The South Carolina primary was the first major test of the candidates’ appeal among […]

By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Sunday, March 8, the worship service programs thatwere passed out to congregants entering New Hope Church, pastored by Dr. Jerry Young,   looked the same as usual. What was unusual, however, […]

By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Jackson State University’s Inaugural Women’s Council for Philanthropy luncheon was held at the Country Club of Jackson, March 4. Dr. John A. Peoples, JSU’s sixth president, and his wife Mary E. […]

By Emily Larsen, Associated Press, Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed Joe Biden, marking the end of a high-spending, self-funded campaign that rejected conventional campaign tactics. His announcement comes as […]

By Gail M. Brown, Guest Writer, March is Women’s History Month and Holmes County native Elma Maxine Howard Smith has seen and been involved in a great deal of history. Recently, family, friends, church members […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes of the U.S. space program, passed away at 101 years […]

By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service, A Division of Zenger News,   When LaQuinn Phillips was accused of dousing his pregnant girlfriend with gasoline and setting her on fire in 2018, he had a difficult time […]