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A Year After Michael Brown's Death, Ferguson Has Changed
A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy relationship between its growing black population and its mostly white police force barely registered in local …
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Civil Rights
Bond Remembered for Civil Rights Work After His Death at 75
Through the tough struggles of the civil rights movement, Julian Bond always kept his sense of humor, and it was his steady demeanor that helped him persist despite the inevitable …
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Gay Couples Win, but Still Lose After Kentucky Judge's Order
Two same-sex couples in this small eastern Kentucky county got everything they wanted in a ruling from a federal judge Monday, except for one sentence.
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Business
Downtown Y Dropping Basketball, Raising Funds to Stay Alive
Jackson's downtown YMCA is undertaking a life-saving effort involving major renovations, reinvestment, and downsizing of the facility's financially draining programs and activities.
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Biz Roundup
Local Art at Fischer's, Mellow Moustaches, UMMC AirCare and MSU/VA Partnership
Beginning Thursday, Nov. 13, Fischer Galleries (736 N. State St.) will display a new gallery of works by Mississippi artists Cathy Hegman and Stacey Johnson.
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Biz Roundup
While Stores Prepare for the Holidays, UMMC Prepares for Ebola
With the holiday season approaching, the Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl) is preparing a number of events to celebrate the season beginning this weekend.
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Editor's Note
My Generation Doesn’t Give Up Easily
All jokes aside, millennials arguably have it harder than any generation before us.
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Music
Shelly Fairchild: Timeline of Your Life
Singer Shelly Fairchild has a successful music career in Nashville, due in part to her Mississippi upbringing.
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Civil Rights
On Punishment
An attorney friend put it best when she told me that equality and progress can't just mean taking the same broken system that victimizes black and brown folks and applying …
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LGBT
A Long, Long LGBT Road
Cameron Stewart and Amber Cameron have been together five and a half years. About a year ago, the couple had a backyard wedding ceremony with vows and commitments—but because they …
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Person of the Day
Dundrecous Nelson
Dundrecous Nelson hopes 85 percent is enough right now. After an ankle injury that ended his college career, he is currently 85 percent back to his old self and knows …
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Events
Community Meetings and Events
A Memorial Day Parade will be held in downtown Vicksburg on Monday, May 26
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Business
Casinos, LGBTs Still Allied in Face of SB 2681
To say that Mississippi, where citizens passed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage in 2004, has been slow to cash in on the economic potential of embracing LGBT people and …
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Israel Cracks Down on Hamas Amid Search for Teens
Israel warned Monday it would exact a heavy price from Hamas, as a massive search for three missing Jewish seminary students turned into the widest crackdown on the Islamic militant …
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Militants Fly Their Black Flags Over Iraq Refinery
Sunni militants hung their black banners on watchtowers at Iraq's largest oil refinery, a witness said Thursday, suggesting an ever-increasing stranglehold on the vital facility by insurgents who have seized …
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Top Shiite Cleric Calls for New Government in Iraq
The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority called for a new, "effective" government Friday, increasing pressure on the country's prime minister as an offensive by Sunni militants rages on.
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Can Obama Wage War Without Consent of Congress?
As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Barack Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President George W. Bush's administration from taking military action against …
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City & County
Building Purpose in Jackson
Jackson has made positive strides over the last few years, and I believe our best years to be in front of it—but there is still a lot of work for …
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National
Resigning AG Eric Holder Was Key in Mississippi Cases
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's first African American AG and one of the longest-tenured members of first-black-President Barack Obama's cabinet, is stepping down.
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Editor's Note
It’s OK to Be Critical
Music is an art form, so it's entirely subjective. But it's also objective. The goal is to reach wider audiences, to evolve and become better over time.
