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Smiling in Heaven
My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.
By the Handful
Fannie Lou Hamer, a folk philosopher of the Civil Rights Movement, knew what she was up against in a state and region where an entrenched hard-right oligarchy ruled at the ...
Organizing in the South
I'm a Catholic now, but I grew up in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. My grandfather was a Holiness preacher. I know about revivals. Preachers exhort, and people respond. They sing, ...
City of the Dead
Memphis in 1878 became a city of the dead—people hiding behind shuttered windows and locked doors, the clickety-clack of wagons carrying the corpses to waiting gravediggers.
Attention Walmart Shoppers
Walmart's "chintzy" attitude toward the wages and benefits of its workers isn't news. What may be news to many, however, is just how bad it is for workers at Walmart ...
Business
A Right to Choose at Nissan
A growing number of workers in recent months have called for an election to determine whether the United Auto Workers should represent them.
Books
'Mississippi is Mine'
What Meredith did not only changed a university, but also a state and a nation.
Music
The Dark Side
It was decades ago, but I'll never forget that night. I'm glad I wrote the details down in a journal.
Business
Battle to Unionize Nissan
CANTON – Michael Carter hardly evokes the Hollywood image of a podium-pounding, fire-breathing labor agitator.
Business
Danny Glover Stands with Workers
CANTON - Actor Danny Glover told a half-dozen Nissan workers at the United Auto Workers office here last Friday that he had a special, personal reason for meeting with them ...
Film
Not So Young Guns
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss.—I'm staring into the face of Marshal Wyatt Earp. It's not exactly as I remember him back when I was a 10-year-old would-be cowboy and Wyatt was on ...
[Atkins] Modern-Day Servitude
I was a lowly intern at a major newspaper up north, sitting at my desk in a corner plotting my day when a small, elderly, bespectacled man walked past me ...
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See the latest 100Knowledge06 Everybody has a 'story' about the 'so-called' businesses that are going to leave Jackson or not come here. You guys ...
May 22, 12:43 a.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl A thousand apologies. I should have said, "unfettered government."
May 21, 11:09 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl Please believe me when I say that Capitolinsider and myself are not whining. And to think that misery is what ...
May 21, 11:01 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
Capitolinsider No, my issues are of governance and an upwardly mobile populous. While I do not like the man due to ...
May 21, 10:50 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
darryl Well, you do apparently. And, thank you, I will. From my vantage point outside the Jack-Kush limits, I will greedily ...
May 21, 10:38 p.m. on Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
Open Letter to Jacksonians from Dorothy Triplett
By Donna Ladd