“A bit over a week ago, Ashton (Pittman) noticed the controversy over Aldean’s shocking ‘Try That In a Small Town’ lyrics, which goes much further than glorifying gun culture or using guns for self-defense,” Donna Ladd writes.
Jackson State University English Instructor LaWanda Dickens shares her experience of viewing the “Barbie” movie this past opening weekend with her youngest daughter Natalie Dickens and her two Barbie dolls. “Our lives and stories were well-represented,” she writes.
Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable Executive Director Cassandra Welchlin spotlights Black Women’s Equal Pay Day on July 27, 2023, acknowledging the milestones made, but also writes that pay for Black women is still not equal and much more work must be done.
In the U.S., most consumers take clean and available fresh water for granted, and water usually becomes front-page news only when there’s a crisis, But seeing water problems as only environmental disasters does not capture the deeply interconnected nature of water in our society. The Conversation hosted a webinar with experts with a range of expertise and different perspectives on water issues and potential solutions.
“Fun fact: I got married on April 15, 2023. I also got married on June 24, 2023. Yes, I married the same person twice,” Nate Schumann writes. “No, we did not split during that 10-week period. We actually chose to have two ceremonies!”
Mississippi educator Rita Callahan encourages leaders to implement more community youth programs and mentorship initiatives to curb violence and crime among Jackson’s young people.
“303 Creative addressed whether a Colorado anti-discrimination law can require a designer who believes marriage is only between a man and a woman to create a wedding website for a same-sex couple,” Charles J. Russo writes. “Two years ago, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the answer was ‘yes.’ But on June 30, 2023, a bitterly divided Supreme Court reversed that judgment.”
How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the problem has declined
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