2015/04/27 – What is going on in the minds of some cops that frequently prompts empathy for armed white men but unleashes lethal fury on unarmed African-American men? As a ceaseless flat line of tragedies snuffs out the lives of young …..
2015/04/25 – Gov. Phil Bryant wants to pay lip service to state hospitals, but his platitudes aren’t helping their bottom line. The governor is pushing to create healthcare-based economic development zones in the state, but his proposal won’t help medical facilities …..
2015/04/25 – An analysis in The Times – “1.5 Million Missing Black Man – showed that more than one in every six black men in the 24-to-54 age group has disappeared from civic life, mainly because they died young or …..
2015/04/23 – Gov. Phil Bryant on Thursday vetoed an “anti-Common Core” bill passed by the Legislature, saying it doesn’t guarantee the national education standards won’t be used in Mississippi schools. “I remain firmly committed to ending Common Core in Mississippi,” Republican Bryant …..
2015/04/23 – The Mississippi Department of Education issued the first of what it says will be many charges against Clarksdale Municipal School District educators for cheating on the 2012-13 statewide assessments. At a press conference Thursday in Jackson, state Superintendent Carey Wright …..