Mississippi High Schools Receive $75,000 in DICK’S Grants to Repair Tornado Damages
DICK’S Sporting Goods awarded two Mississippi high-school sports programs $75,000 for repairs after tornadoes damaged their complexes.
DICK’S Sporting Goods awarded two Mississippi high-school sports programs $75,000 for repairs after tornadoes damaged their complexes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the deployment of federal resources to the parts of the Mississippi Delta where powerful tornadoes killed at least 26 people over the weekend.
At least 26 people are dead after powerful tornadoes tore through the Mississippi Delta Friday night, destroying homes and buildings, leveling entire communities and injuring dozens including in the towns of Silver City, Rolling Fork, Winona and Amory.
Jesse Betts, originally from Tupelo, Miss., first purchased Main Street Opry building in 1990 and opened it as a concert venue for family-friendly variety shows that included both country and gospel music and skits.
Long-time newspaper editor Bonny Parham had a consistent presence and a personal stake in her community. Amory, Miss., was her home, and she documented its happenings for 40 years, from the 1960s to 2000. The perfectionist had to do good work not only for the newspaper’s survival but also because she needed the meager small-town newspaper salary for her and her son to eat and have a roof over their heads. Her photos live past her and now document the town through her eyes.
“I started my freshman year at Yale against the wishes of many in my community and family. And I struggled. Not with classes, but with finding my place in a new world of wealth, status and achievement.”
Mississippi will raise more than $50 million for K-12 schools, colleges and universities by the end of its first full fiscal year on June 30. The education funding comes on top of $80 million that the lottery already raised this year for roads and bridges.
Yes On 76 organizers hope to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot in Mississippi for the November 2022 election. If voters adopted it, around 200,000 working Mississippians who cannot currently afford health insurance would become eligible for the Medicaid program.
LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi founder Sammy Moon considered moving away with his partner amid a raft of anti-LGBTQ legislation, but decided to stay and use his experience in philanthropy to make it a better place. The fund envisions a Mississippi in which “all LGBTQ Mississippians will live safely, openly and without alienation”—the opposite of Moon’s own experiences growing up.
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