Opinion | In Defense of Black Education as a Liberatory Practice
Author and former educator Sean Brown responds to the death of Senate Bill 2726, which could have possibly been a threat to Mississippi HBCUs.
Author and former educator Sean Brown responds to the death of Senate Bill 2726, which could have possibly been a threat to Mississippi HBCUs.
Kadarius Smith, a Black 17-year-old, died after a Leland, Miss., police officer ran him over in a police cruiser, attorney Ben Crump says.
An ex-police officer pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge after authorities say he forced a Latino man to lick his own urine off the floor.
Longtime civil-rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner of Hattiesburg, Miss., died on March 11, 2024, at 81.
Publisher and author Meredith Coleman McGee writes about her journey through life’s ups and downs and how she continues to push forward despite it all.
Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died on Jan. 22, 2024, after battling prostate cancer.
Leslie McLemore II reflects on the realities of death and legacy after having a “next steps” conversation with his father, Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore.
Bernice King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence.
“I can’t tell you how many white people, many of them young, have walked up to me at a restaurant or a grocery store and said: ‘Thank you. I was taught the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,” Editor Donna Ladd writes, explaining why her Mississippi newsrooms have reported difficult historic context for over two decades.
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