Four years after writing “Mississippi Beautiful”, Pam Confer is ready to bring a new message to Mississippi and anyone willing to listen.
“It’s sort of on-demand … basically like a DVR. It lets people have a live experience, but if they don’t have time, they don’t have to miss it.”
In response to the brutalization of these black bodies, Tougaloo College is continuing the tradition of freedom fighting by establishing the Reuben V. Anderson Institute for Social Justice. “It remains our responsibility to contribute to the education of students to train them to become the ethical leaders, change agents and social justice advocates of tomorrow making meaningful change throughout the world,” Tougaloo College President Carmen J. Walters said.
Roy Tamboli’s large-scale abstract paintings grab the eye and don’t let go, pulling it along on a buzzy trip of color, energy, whirls and swirls.
Ordained minister Robert Lowry, the pastor and head of staff at Fondren Presbyterian in Jackson, Miss., is gay, and he certainly doesn’t think it’s a
A purple boa curls into a feathery collar on the cover of Elizabeth McCain’s new book—a whimsical nod to her knowing half-smile, her extrovert nature and a pivotal moment that preceded her life as a lesbian. The boa shows up early in her just-published memoir, “A Lesbian Belle Tells: OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love,” as a prop in a ploy that goes maddeningly sideways.
As a busy graduating senior, Charles Rounds III said he had completely forgotten he had entered his piece focused on defeating fascism for the Lowell
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Die Jim Crow Records Executive Director Fury Young got a call from BL Shirelle, the label’s deputy
Up until shortly after 5 p.m. on Nov. 8, 1957, everything was normal aboard Pan American Flight 7 as the Boeing Stratocruiser made its way
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