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Inter Alia (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Philip Thomas is a lawyer in Jackson, Mississippi, who went from a primarily defense practice to a primarily plaintiff practice. He's demonstrating his knowledge of litigation on both sides of the fence at MS Litigation Review and Commentary . You'll find his comments on the latest developments in Mississippi civil litigation, including specific cases, as well as matters pending before certain courts...
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Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The U.S. Navy has named a supply ship after slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The nearly 700 foot-long vessel will deliver food, ammunition and parts to other ships at sea. During the civil rights movement, Evers organized nonviolent protests, voter registration drives and boycotts in Mississippi. He rose to the post of state field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of...
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Sanctuary for the Abused (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
What to Do When a Spouse Refuses Help by Rob Jackson, MS, LPC, NCC (written from a Christian perspective and does not necessarily express the religious views of this site or its owner) We shouldn’t be surprised when an addict refuses our initial confrontation. The situation is difficult for the addict as well. Perhaps, in spite of our fears, we presented our concerns logically and with more than...
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Housing Works News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
When the Campaign to End AIDS launched in 2005, hundreds of people with HIV/AIDS drove in caravans and walked to Washington, D.C. from throughout the country to remind the world that AIDS was not over. Filmmakers from Filmworks Brooklyn documented the effort of one of those caravans. The result is Closer to God , a compelling documentary about a dozen people living with HIV and AIDS. Closer to God...
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PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
THE ROCK-A-BILLY MUSEUM in Jackson, Mississippi, has an exhibition on musical instruments in the Bible: Rock-A-Billy Museum will host exhibit on Biblical instruments beginning Monday By TRACIE SIMER tsimer@jacksonsun.com • September 19, 2009 Trumpets, harps, horns and drums all are modern-day instruments found in most orchestras. They also were found in ancient civilizations, including ancient...
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RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Punk music and fashion shot across the sky pretty quickly in the ’70s, but when hardcore emerged in the ’80s, it really set up shop and became a code of living. So it’s not insincere for the SoCal-based BYO (Better Youth Organization) label, which was formed by members of the band Youth Brigade , to give its 25th-anniversary box set the gospel-ish title Let Them Know . You wanna...
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ACLU (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Jackson, MS -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today asked a federal court in Mississippi to end government funding of religion in the state's abstinence-only-until-marriage program.The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District on behalf of a teen and two community members who attended a state-sponsored abstinence summit in May of this...
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Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) says there is a special relationship between the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and the civil rights movement. “There was something about the Kennedy family…[and] Sen. Kennedy. It was this feeling that these men would do the right thing — that they would be our champion,” said Lewis, who marched alongside Martin Luther King and was beaten by racists who sought...
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Finding life hard? (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
The Help Kathryn Stockett I read lots of books but rarely review them as most as fine but ordinary; this is an exception. I bought it simply because I saw it in Waterstones just after I had heard an excerpt from it on Pick of the Week on Radio 4. I think it was Woman's Hour Book of the Month or something. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 it relates the Civil Rights movement from an unusual angle....
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PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
[From Alan Gielczyk RTS Jackson, MS] Hey Sammy and gang how is spring coming in your area? It is beautiful here in Mississippi! I have to tell you how I am finding the switch from PDA(TX) to smartphone(Centro). I love...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
JACKSON, Miss. -- A judge says Democrats must put the embattled mayor of Mississippi's biggest city back on the ballot for a May primary.
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
Dozens of homes are damaged from two separate tornadoes that touched down in Mississippi overnight. Crews are now working to repair power in the cities of Jackson and Magee. Mississippi Tornado: Magee The first tornado hit in Magee — a small town northeast of Hattiesburg — around 1:30 a.m., emergency officials say. The twister tore through 60 [...]
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
JACKSON, Miss., March 26 (UPI) -- Residents in Simpson County, Miss., were cleaning up Thursday in the aftermath of a tornado that touched down overnight, officials said. Meanwhile, snow disrupted travel in Colorado and Wyoming and other parts of the central Rockies as an early Spring storm moved through the region, with up to a foot of snow expected in some areas, AccuWeather.com reported. In Mississippi,...
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On Deadline (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
Several people have been injured by a tornado and strong winds that destroyed dozens of homes and business and flattened a church in Magee, Miss., the Associated Press and the Jackson Clarion-Ledger report. The newspaper quotes Katherine Gunby, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, as saying the church was leveled by the storm, which hit around midnight. “Only the doors...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
JACKSON, MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art is further defining its role as both a conceptual arts venue and a key contributor to Mississippi’s economic development efforts with an astonishing exhibition of the varied and remarkable accomplishments of French master Raoul Dufy. Visitors to Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty through July 5, 2009, will see the extraordinary influence of the creative...
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