The KKK Bombed Jackson’s Beth Israel in 1967. It Just Received Another Threat.
Beth Israel in Jackson, Miss., canceled services after someone emailed the synagogue a bomb threat on Dec. 17, 2023.Â
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Beth Israel in Jackson, Miss., canceled services after someone emailed the synagogue a bomb threat on Dec. 17, 2023.Â
Three months ago, I spent my work days in an empty home, the podcasts emanating from my phone my primary source of auditory stimulation. I
The Meridian Public School District is no longer under federal supervision because it has taken sufficient steps to limit the effects of segregation, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate found as he granted the district unitary status during a Sept. 12 hearing in Jackson, Miss.
“Fun fact: I got married on April 15, 2023. I also got married on June 24, 2023. Yes, I married the same person twice,” Nate Schumann writes. “No, we did not split during that 10-week period. We actually chose to have two ceremonies!”
Through his Lauderdale, Miss., business Carvings ’N’ Creations, Kyle Tullos offers crafts made using sandblasting, powder coating and other techniques.
Liz Cain, a breast-cancer survivor, often hosts community fundraisers outside her Dalewood, Miss., gift shop and boutique, gg’s.
The Meridian Jazz and Blues marker honors blues and jazz performers that have played pivotal roles in musical history, locally and nationally, laying a foundation for future music genres. But Karen Hinton writes that many Mississippi blues women, especially Black women, are left out of the conversation and off of these historic markers, and most are not mentioned at all compared to men artists.
Nick Wallace has earned many accolades throughout his career, with the Small Business Association recently naming the Jacksonian chef the title of 2023 Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year.
Poor defendants in Mississippi are routinely jailed for months, and sometimes even years, without being appointed an attorney due to the state’s notoriously dysfunctional public defender system. The Mississippi Supreme Court now says this practice must end.
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