2015/07/09 – Mississippi political leaders have refused to stand up for progress and remove a divisive symbol of oppression from the state’s flag. It falls now upon the business community to help pull our state into the modern world. The …..
2015/07/08 – Jackson resident Clemarvin Williams, age 9, suffered a number of dreadful setbacks during the months leading up to the statewide third-grade literacy test in April. Earlier this year, his mother went to bed with a bottle of antacid …..
2015/06/18 – Washington got weird this month. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blew his top when House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) helped destroy a trade deal he personally backed, along with President Barack Obama and the rest of the …..
2015/06/17 – A pattern has emerged—in Oakland, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, and beyond. Police claiming to feel threatened kill unarmed black men. Protests follow, sometimes including violence. The Department of Justice finds a pattern and practice of racially-biased policing. …..
2015/06/05 – Every single public school student in Baltimore will be offered free breakfast and lunch at school regardless of whether a student comes from a low, middle, or upper-income family, the Baltimore Sun reports. The initiative is a part of a federal …..
