From Mississippi to Liberia: The Living Legacy of America’s West ...
Nov 14, 2018 · Many say the legacy of freed African-American slaves, some from Mississippi, living and ruling over Liberia for more than 150 years ignited two Liberian civil wars that spanned 14 years off and on ...
News | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
May 31, 2022 · Mississippi native Jay Branch has organized the inaugural Kids Fest Jackson event taking place in Jackson, Miss., on Saturday, April 9, 2022. By Dustin Cardon, Mississippi Free Press. April 8 ...
Exploring Jackson’s History | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
Aug 7, 2019 · Where? 222 North St., Suite 1206. When? 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. What? Opened alongside the adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in December 2017, the Museum of ...
Two Women Chosen to Lead Jackson City Council for First Time
Jul 7, 2021 · JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For the first time in the history of Mississippi's capital city, the City Council president and vice-president are women. Jackson City Council members voted 4-3 Tuesday to ...
Meredith McGee | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
Jan 4, 2017 · Photo by Imani Khayyam. While Meredith McGee was growing up in Jackson, the second-generation writer says her family had a love for reading and the written arts. From her uncle, James Meredith, a ...
Joe Biden and the Dixiecrats Who Helped His Career
May 1, 2019 · The Dixiecrat mentorship Biden received during his early years in the Senate appear to have left their mark. In 1986, The Morning News reported on Biden's trip to Alabama, where Democratic state ...
Rebel Land: A Racial History of Oxford and Ole Miss
Dec 12, 2012 · Oxford at a Crossroads. During the chaos of 1962, Ken Wooten was in law school at Ole Miss working in the student-affairs division, and assisted federal marshals and fielded calls from reporters ...
UPDATED: City Selects Blogger 'Kingfish' Hendrix, 'Snakeman' …
The documents announcing Hendrix's nomination say he will be taking a vacant Ward 1 seat, representing northeast Jackson. Ward 7 Councilwoman and Vice President Margaret Barrett-Simon seemed ...
Heather Denné | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
Aug 26, 2020 · Denné and her husband, Rod, married on Aug. 1, 2020. Denné has a 15-year-old son named Julien. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba appointed Heather Denné, director of community engagement at ...
Interrupting the Poverty Cycle: Looking Back to Move Forward in ...
Dec 20, 2017 · Mississippi Delta counties—places where African Americans were first enslaved, then became poorly paid workers and sharecroppers—average a poverty level of 30 percent, and services and ...