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By Othor Cain, Editor, First elected to office in 1985, District 69 Rep. Alyce Griffin Clarke was the first black woman in the state Legislature. At the time of her election, Clarke was a co-chair […]

By Richard Prince, TriceEdneyWire.com, When candidate Donald Trump appealed for African-American votes in the 2016 campaign, he famously asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?” According to U. S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), […]

By Othor Cain, Editor,   Pelahatchie, is a small Mississippi town, with a population of 1,461, according to the 2000 census. It is 60 percent white and since 2017 has had its first African-American mayor. […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, With observances planned throughout March to commemorate Women’s History Month, a new report revealed that women are still mostly absent from newsrooms. The Women’s Media Center’s 2019 report […]

By Jesse Jackson, TriceEdneyWire.com,   This past weekend, political leaders from across the country gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where peaceful demonstrators, attempting to […]

By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Like so many African- American churches, members of College Hill Baptist church consider every month Black History month; however, on February 21 C.J. Rhodes, pastor of Mt. Helm Baptist Church, helped […]

By Evelia Jones, Special to The Mississippi Link, It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, Director Spike Lee, who was famously passed over for Best Film and Best Director for his 1992 film “Malcolm X,” won his first Oscar at the 91st Annual […]