Hydeia Broadbent
Born with HIV and abandoned at a Las Vegas hospital in 1984, Hydeia Broadbent was diagnosed with full-blown AIDS by age 3.
Play of the Week: "New Beginnings"
Mark Henderson, chairman of the Speech and Theater Department at Jackson State University and artistic director of MADDRAMA, focused his play, "New Beginnings," on eight stereotypes society tends to hold about black men.
Bill of the Day: Mississippi Youth Concussion Law
During the Super Bowl this Sunday, the topic of concussions is bound to come up at some point. Contact sports have come under fire in the last few years over head injuries, but none so much as football.
Pam Anglin
Pam Anglin doesn't quite know how she got into the antiques business. The job just fell into her lap.
Judy Meredith
James Meredith isn't the only one in his family working to change society. His wife, Judy, has been elected to the Fulbright Association's National Board of Directors and Diversity Task Force.
Museum of the Day: Smith Robertson Museum
Recently, CNN recognized Jackson's Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, which explores the African American experience in the south.
Heather McTeer Toney
Last week U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announced that Heather McTeer Toney is President Barack Obama's selection for regional administrator for EPA's regional office in Atlanta.
Lee King
When legendary performer James Brown called to offer Lee King a job, King hung up on him. Twice.
Catherine Lutz
St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstabt held a funeral Monday for Major General Catherine Lutz, the first woman to command the Mississippi National Guard, who died last week at age 58.
Dan Aykroyd
To say that actor Dan Aykroyd, 61, is a modern-day Renaissance man might be an understatement.
Lizzie Cooper
It was in 1990 that Lizzie Cooper, a Jackson native, opened up Double Trouble, a center for those afflicted with drug addiction and mental disorders in the Jackson area.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A great man once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." That man was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The great civil rights hero died of a gunshot wound April 4, 1968, but his legacy lives on.
Susan Hughey Hogan and Paul Hughey
When Paul Hughey died at age 75, he left behind an old possession in his Gulfport home that would fuel a powerful goal for his daughter, Susan Hughey Hogan.
Marathon of the Day
Running and blues music don't really go together—that is, unless you're either listening to the blues while running, or you're one of the participants in the Mississippi Blues Marathon and Half Marathon.
Keenan Lewis
When the New Orleans Saints won their first on-the-road playoff game in franchise history against the Philadelphia Eagles, it seemed like one injury was going to take away the victory before it was sealed.