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News Briefs From Across the State Man owes $18,000 for two kids A Tupelo man was given the option of paying child support or going to prison. Barrett Bishop, 36, was sentenced by Lee County […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With black unemployment rates still on the rise, President Barack Obama – through his 2011 budget proposal – is apparently trying to undergird the African-American community from other economic angles until change […]

MEMPHIS – Details continue to emerge about the violent history of a firefighter accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in the parking lot of a Memphis hospital last week. Frank Graham, 34, is being held without […]

JACKSON, Miss. — Stanley Cole was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the 2007 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Latasha Norman. A Hinds County jury took just two hours to convict Cole.   Police said […]

OXFORD – A 20-year old University of Mississippi football player is dead after school officials said he collapsed during a routine workout Friday. Ole Miss trainers said Bennie F. Abram, of Southaven, was struggling Friday […]

This week in Black History February 21 – February 29 February 21 On this day in 1965, the controversial and charismatic leader of Islam, Malcolm X, was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. […]

Driving downtown on West Capitol Street Saturday night, Feb. 20, a motorist might have felt as if he or she had driven through a ‘twilight zone’ into Hollywood when arriving at the Jackson King Edward […]