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The Natchez U.S. Colored Troops Monument Project voted unanimously to commission Jay Warren to design a monument to the thousands of U.S. Colored Troops from Natchez.
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.
U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said in a Sept. 15, 2022, press release that the federal disaster loans available for businesses in and around Hinds County that the Jackson water crisis has affected will help the “communities recover and rebuild.”
Jackson businesses that have suffered losses amid the Mississippi capital city’s ongoing water crisis will be able to apply for as much as $2 million in federal Economic Injury Disaster loans, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Wednesday.
Juneteenth commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
Mississippi Makers Fest is an all-day festival centered around the Entergy Plaza at the Two Mississippi Museums from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7.
Preliminary data from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency show considerable damage across the state, including a broken section of fence at the Governor’s Mansion in downtown Jackson.
Mississippi, homegrown musicians Kyle Graves, Wyatt Brady, Joe Cranfield and Ryan Purser—collectively known as Four Way Stop—recently took top honors for Best Rock Duo/Group Song of the Year at the Josie Music Awards in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., for their song “Wicked Woman.”
The Natchez U.S. Colored Troops Monument Committee hosted a town hall meeting on Nov. 10 to get community input on a potential monument to honor and showcase the names of more than 3,000 African American men who served with the colored troops at Fort McPherson in Natchez during the Civil War and the Navy men who served and were born in Natchez.
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