2015/05/06 – While the president’s new nonprofit group is a positive step, it still falls short of the radical initiatives needed to bring equal justice. President Barack Obama’s announcement Monday of the nonprofit group My Brother’s Keeper’s Alliance, during a speech at …..
2015/05/05 – PASCAGOULA – On a rain-drenched day in April, students at Pascagoula’s Cherokee Elementary sweated out a computerized 50-question multiple choice test. Third-grader Lacey Peeler admitted she was a little nervous about the high stakes attached to the test. “Kind of, …..
2015/05/06 – The state is seeking a stay of a federal judge’s ruling ordering Mississippi to grant its only female death row inmate a new trial within 120 days or release her from custody. The state is seeking a stay of …..
2015/05/06 – A Jackson Public Schools teacher told the Board of Trustees on Tuesday that despite teaching for 18 years in New York, she has “never felt more disrespected and degraded” than in the two years she’s spent in Jackson Public …..
2015/05/01 – Fifty years ago, college students Charles Cobb and Judy Richardson marched to outlaw discrimination during one of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. “Mostly when people think of the Southern civil rights movement, they think of mass …..
