Opinion | Fully Fund HBCUs to Ensure Education Equity and Enhance Social Progress
Duvalier Malone writes that state leaders need to rightly address the underfunding of HBCUs in order to ensure education equity across the nation.
Duvalier Malone writes that state leaders need to rightly address the underfunding of HBCUs in order to ensure education equity across the nation.
The Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning named Dr. Tracy Cook as the new president of Alcorn State University.
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Mississippi Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, said he doubts a bill to close three universities will survive a legislative deadline Tuesday.
“Throughout a trailblazing career that spanned half a century, (Flemmie Pansy Kittrell) worked to enhance food security and to improve both diets and children’s health—under the umbrella of home economics,” Brandy Thomas Wells writes.
Mississippi’s HBCUs can empower Jackson’s Black middle class and help build a “resurgent Jackson” amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
JACKSON, Miss.—Jackson State University President Dr. Marcus Thompson entered the third-floor student ballroom of the Student Union and shook hands with most of the roughly
Former Jackson State University Vice President Dr. Debra Mays-Jackson alleges that IHL engages in sexually discriminatory hiring practices.
Mississippi’s IHL Board of Trustees named Dr. Marcus L. Thompson as the new president of Jackson State University.
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