Utica Locals Tackle Food Desert Woes With ‘Homegrown’ Festival
Sipp Culture is planning the Homegrown Utica Festival as part of local efforts to tackle food insecurity in Utica, a Mississippi food desert.
Sipp Culture is planning the Homegrown Utica Festival as part of local efforts to tackle food insecurity in Utica, a Mississippi food desert.
Matthew Wilburn told Mitzi Magleby that he was terminally ill in September 2022. She filed for his compassionate release soon after on Sept. 29, 2022, but he remained in prison until March 2023.
About 250 survivors of the deadly tornadoes that swept through Mississippi on March 24 are now eligible for direct housing assistance through FEMA, State officials announced Monday.
In addition to the Halloween-themed fundraisers and parties taking place this October, Mississippians can visit a number of haunted houses and similar attractions in cities like Gulfport, Raymond, Ellisville, Brandon, Meridian and others.
Gloria Tucker is tired of fighting battles her community had supposedly already won. The president of the NAACP’s Batesville chapter knows the long history of struggling for equality in Panola County, about an hour south of Mississippi’s border with Tennessee.
Calvin Hawkins has researched Black history in Yalobusha County for the last six years, and he is releasing a book entitled “Under the Dusty Sand” that contains much of his research.
M.R. Hackman initially founded Sherman Creek Grocery as a country store in 1933. Currently, Dottie Wheeler runs the store.
Brandon Simmons first fished at the Sardis Lake during a summer camp when he was 13, but now he returns weekly to fish the dam as well as meet and converse with other fishermen.
Batesville mayoral candidate Eddie Nabors traveled to Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6. Social-media posts also show that, in November, he marched in a group that included The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist organization.
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