Opinion | Protecting the Pillars of Heritage: Battling Threats to Mississippi’s HBCUs
Duvalier Malone responds to Senate Bill 2726, writing that it’s a potential threat to Mississippi’s HBCUs.
Duvalier Malone responds to Senate Bill 2726, writing that it’s a potential threat to Mississippi’s HBCUs.
Students from several historically Black colleges and universities in Mississippi participated in the “HBCU Get Out the Vote Tour.”
Home Depot’s “Retool Your School” program awarded grants to Rust College, Tougaloo College, Jackson State University, Coahoma Community College and Mississippi Valley State University.
The Social Action Committee of the Jackson (MS) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is using public forums to bring community voices together on issues that affect Mississippians. The forums have focused on topics like health equity, redistricting, voter suppression, supporting gender equality and educational disparities and inequalities.
The “Breaking Bread” Itta Bena project encourages unity and communication between Mississippi Valley State University and the Itta Bena community.
Five historically Black institutions of higher learning in Mississippi received bomb threats this morning as the nation begins the first day of Black History Month celebrations.
Diversity in the boardroom was not enough for Dr. Cora Norman, and she began convening statewide panels and forums to promote the humanities and what the study of the field could do for race relations in the state. This encouraged the state’s humanities scholars to give their academic work real-life application by connecting small-town Mississippians to professors and other civil-rights advocates.
While we are the future of this great state, you are the present. As lawmakers, you have the unique responsibility to decide how Mississippi meets this moment. This time, let’s get it right.”
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