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Having worked in the restaurant industry since she was 15, Samantha Busby thrives when she is serving guests and making them happy.

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Math literacy for African American children was an essential aspect of Moses’ philosophy and work. …

Civil rights activist Bob Moses founded The Algebra Project to help Black students develop strong …

Bob Moses used a MacArthur Foundation genius grant to create and launch the Algebra Project …

OPINION: The Algebra Project: Bob Moses’ ‘Gateway To Equality’ For Black Students

Bob Moses used a MacArthur Foundation genius grant to create and launch the Algebra Project in 1982 to help rural and urban students achieve math literacy and to train teachers, administrators, and community activists to be math coaches. He taught math himself from Lanier High School in Jackson for years.

From left: Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, JPD Assistant Chief Ricky Robinson, criminal-justice advocate Rukia Lumumba, and …

Gov. Tate Reeves announced what he called a “saturation” of state police into the capital …

Governor’s Policing Surge In Jackson May Not Prevent Violence, Address Causes

Parts of Mississippi’s capital city are seeing a “saturation” of state police that Gov. Tate Reeves promises will counter a spike in crime and violence that has worsened since the pandemic began.

Editorial Assistant Shaye Smith views Mississippians as generous people who care about their neighbors and …

Freedom Rider Frederick Douglas Moore Clark Sr. ended up at Parchman Prison, where he spent …

Hezekiah Watkins’ mugshot Photo courtesy Kayode Crown

Hezekiah Watkins, now 73, landed in Parchman Prison in Mississippi at age 13 after trying …

60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides: The ‘Accidental Freedom Rider’ Locked up in Parchman at 13

Hezekiah Watkins was looking for a hero. As a 13-year-old middle schooler in 1961 in Jackson who had lost his father three years earlier, he thought that seeing and possibly touching a Freedom Rider would fulfill him.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mississippians, Take Care of One Another, Don’t Feed the ‘Virus-Animal’

We have the means to end this pandemic that has taken so many from us and, for those of us fortunate enough to simply be inconvenienced, been such a previously unimaginable disruption to our lives. Editorial Assistant Shaye Smith views Mississippians as generous people who care about their neighbors and take care of one another. As such, she encourages residents to receive their COVID vaccines to reduce chances of viral mutation and a prolonged pandemic—a way to stop the “virus-animal,” she writes.