This article draws from recent oral histories and ethnographic observations of commemorative events to shift the analytical frame toward attention to essential differences in the shooting contexts, arguing that Jackson State was not "the South's Kent State" but a "Mississippi phenomenon" best ...
Celebrate! Black History Parade & Festival on Feb. 22. You can enjoy music, food, a family-friendly kid zone and the parade as it makes its way through the downtown Columbia area. For more information, visit the website. Jackson, Mississippi Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of ...
Here we list all the museums within 25km of BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM CORINTH, please see the table below for details. NameAddressDistance (KM) NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM 221 N FILMORE STREET, CORINTH, MS, 38834-5635 0.808 SEIGE & BATTLE OF CORINTH 1009 JACKSON ST, CORINTH, MS, 38834-4721 1.2...
4th white Mississippi officer sentenced to 40 years for torture of 2 Black men Sentencing resumed in Jackson, Mississippi, for a group of six white former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to torture and assault of two Black men. ...
In 2015 many media outlets recognized the 50th anniversary of the Selma March. Civil rights activists met violence inSelma, Alabamaon March 7, 1965, as they attempted to walk from that town to Montgomery to protest a state trooper’s fatal shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young African-Amer...
[Pictured: As a Trailways bus carrying Freedom Riders arrives in Jackson, Mississippi on May 24, 1961, police officers with dogs prepare to arrest and jail those on board.] Toni Frissell/Library of Congress // Wikimedia Commons 1948: Desegregation of the US Armed Forces In a step to ...
(1996) and Reginald Hudlin's "The Great White Hype" opposite Samuel L. Jackson. She also held regular or recurring roles on numerous television shows including Showtime's "Rude Awakenings," UPN's "Mercy Point" and CBS's "Family Law." She snared her highest profile role to date playing...
Copies of the 2021 Jackson Black Pages are now available at The Synergy Link (135 Bounds St.), a collaborative workspace in Jackson, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Customers can also emailmsblackpages@gmail.comto request a directory and arrange a site for pickup....
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges are telling Mississippi to redraw some of its legislative districts, saying the current ones dilute the power of Black voters in three parts of the state.
People in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city say the mostly white state Legislature is trying to encroach on their rights of self-government.