The Miseducation of the Public: Exposing the Cracked Lens on HBCUs
“What we have is a cracked lens—people are seeing a distorted image of our HBCUs,” Dr. Arianna C. Stokes writes.
“What we have is a cracked lens—people are seeing a distorted image of our HBCUs,” Dr. Arianna C. Stokes writes.
Experiencing the loss of a sibling for the first time after his sister—one of nine siblings—recently passed away following a heart attack, Roscoe Barnes III
“T.C. Taylor has a legacy himself and is expected to build upon the program’s story of greatness,” Dr. Arianna Stokes writes.
R.C. Anderson, 65, went to prison more than 40 years ago after he drove his car to a house his friends burglarized in Madison County. He did not learn of the legal provision to erase the crime from his records until recently.
“The notion that we should be grateful is embedded in the idea that we were not good enough in the first place,” Dr. Arianna Stokes writes.
U.S. Small Business Administration extends Jackson loan assistance office’s Closure until Oct. 7, 2022.
For the first time in recent memory, virtually all stakeholders in the future of Mississippi’s capital city came together Wednesday to discuss the Jackson water crisis that has left more than 160,000 residents without clean water for over a month.
For the second day in a roll, the breakdown in operations at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Center in Jackson, Miss., has caused water pressure reduction throughout the capital city, disrupting activities as the city and state declared a state of emergency.
More than 170 other authors will take part in the Mississippi Book Festival, at least 90 of which will also be selling copies of their most recent works in tents along Mississippi Street and N. West Street as part of the event’s Authors Alley.
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