2015/04/15 – Organizers are calling it the largest-ever mobilization of U.S. workers seeking higher pay. That’s yet to be determined. But what began on Tuesday with several low-wage worker protests and marches in Boston and Detroit expanded nationwide on Wednesday beginning …..
2015/04/15 – Whether this past session of the Mississippi Legislature was successful depends largely on which party a lawmaker belonged to. For Democrats in a body that is majority Republican in both houses—in a state with only one Democrat in statewide …..
2015/03/27 – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP applauds the recent indictment of Bolivar County Deputy Walter Grant in the fatal shooting of Willie Bingham in 2013. Deputy Grant shot Bingham in the back of the head as he ran away from …..
2015/03/25 – An Oxford school patron is asking a Hinds County judge to remove from the November ballot an alternative proposed by the Legislature to a citizen-sponsored education funding initiative. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the lawsuit was filed Tuesday in …..
2015/03/22 – More of the nation’s blacks and Latinos have health coverage and fewer are victims of crime, but in overall wealth and employment there are stark disparities compared to whites, according to the newly released State Of Black America 2015. “There …..
