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Nonprofit celebrates personal finance and economic literacy
Business leaders, politicians and educators learned about the importance of financial and economic literacy at the Mississippi Council on Economic Education’s annual fundraiser. “If we all…
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6mOle Miss students and parents call for accountability after viral racist incident
On Tuesday, a student appearing to make ape-like sounds and gestures outside other University of Mississippi students' apartment apologized.
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7mMississippi's newest barrier to voting is Experian data, brother of slain civil rights activist writes
Brother of slain civil rights activist Andrew Goodman writes that 62 years after death of his brother Mississippi is still putting up barriers to voting. Experian is the latest roadblock.
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7mFew museums show the North's Civil Rights Movement. A new one in Harlem is ‘just getting started’
The Urban Civil Rights Museum will open this weekend in New York's Harlem neighborhood, providing a look at the region's lesser-known histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the changemakers and artists whose contributions helped shape politics and culture worldwide.
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7mJackson gets $64 million federal grant to hire more police, boost anti-crime surveillance
Jackson is one of four cities the U.S. Department of Justice chose for its $300 million Model Cities Initiative. Mississippi's capital city will receive $64 million over the next three years.
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4mMississippi awarded $205M for second year of federal rural health program
Mississippi will receive nearly $205 million for the second year of a national program that aims to improve rural healthcare, federal officials announced Monday.