Recent Commentary
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 ...
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.
Recent Stories
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.
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 ...
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See the latest 100bretbaxter The reason JPS had a short fall in the 2005 – 2006 budget was because of the influx of students ...
June 19, 4:16 p.m. on The Odd Journey of Mills for Schools
forwomen As a well-educated woman with one of the most difficult degrees my university offers, I desire to one day stay ...
June 19, 2:37 p.m. on Guest Commentary: Gov. Phil Bryant Is a Caveman
Duan @ js1976 1 day ago *Sorry, but the gun I keep in my truck has never attracted any trouble. Period! ...
June 19, 2:14 p.m. on Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
Duan @ Robbier *Duan, I wonder if one of the robbery victims last night at that church on Ridgewood Rd was ...
June 19, 2:10 p.m. on Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
sarahmina Point well taken, EXCEPT, It wasnt meant to be taken literally but figuratively. What I was TRYING to convey was ...
June 19, 1:26 a.m. on Evers Gala Tops Off Jackson Events
Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
By R.L. Nave