Deconstructing COVID-19 and Education in Holmes County

The (In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19 Project

Noxubee County

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Holmes County Stories

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One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

When Noxubee County schools closed in March 2020, kindergarten teacher Latoya Chamberlain and other staff helped pass out school lunches...

Torsheta Jackson

Co-ops Stepping In to Solve Rural Internet Inequity in Noxubee, Nearby Counties

Co-ops Stepping In to Solve Rural Internet Inequity in Noxubee, Nearby Counties

December 10, 2021

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How and Why: Behind the Scenes of the ‘Black Women, Systemic Barriers, COVID-19’ Project

How and Why: Behind the Scenes of the ‘Black Women, Systemic Barriers, COVID-19’ Project

November 1, 2021

In this Jackson Advocate-Mississippi Free...

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

October 29, 2021

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White Flight in Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened

White Flight in Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened

October 29, 2021

Central Academy was one of...

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Noxubee County

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An abandoned and broken Central Academy yellow bus parked under a large tree

Dr. Travonder McCloud, the school psychologist for the Noxubee County School District, is now a member of the board of aldermen. Her grandmother told her about violence against a one-room Black school with the woman principal taken “across the return,” never to return. Photo by Donna Ladd

Earl Nash Elementary school sign in the foreground of a road on the left. A brick school building sits in the background behind green overgrowth

rick building with a sign that says The front doors of Noxubee County High School

A downward view of a green field past a chain link fence, and a series of buildings in the background. A triangular shaped building has a big C A on the front

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