Sports

Brett Favre among 6 elected to Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame

JACKSON, Mississippi — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is among a six-person class that has been elected to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. The class, announced on Thursday, also includes Clarence Weatherspoon, Fred McAfee, […]

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Holder Resigning: Attorney General Backed Rights

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, America’s first black attorney general and an unflinching champion of civil rights in enforcing the nation’s laws, announced his resignation Thursday after leading the Justice Department since the first days […]

Education

Education reform is not to blame for nation’s segregated school

By Kevin P. Chavous Executive Counsel for the American Federation for Children It is the great irony of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, that segregation in our schools […]

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Confederate group seeks to stop changes on the Ole Miss campus

OXFORD, Mississippi (AP) — A Confederate history group is asking a court to block the University of Mississippi from changing Old South symbols on campus. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Wednesday that Sons of Confederate […]