Delta Surge: 641 New Cases of COVID-19, Highest Since March

The Mississippi State Department of Health announced 641 new cases of COVID-19 today, the highest single-day report of new cases since Mar. 13, 2021, the end of the national surge from the winter holidays.
Affirming Agency and Humanity: What We Can Learn from Reading Prison Writing

After several years of reading the work of writers at Parchman—as well as helping to workshop writing—W. Ralph Eubanks has come to see prison writing as a unique body of literature that offers a commentary on the conditions that exist broadly in American society, specifically in Mississippi and the American South.