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Freedom Summer— 50 years later…Mississippi? ‘I’ll go as far as Memphis’

Site Editor - June 25, 2014

(NNPA)—The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being commemorated this week in Mississippi and it provides the perfect backdrop to reflect on the transformation...

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Racial politics churn Miss. GOP Senate runoff

Courier Newsroom - June 23, 2014

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Race is roiling the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi, a state with a long history of racially divided politics where...

National News

50 years ago, 'Freedom Summer' changed South, US

Courier Newsroom - June 15, 2014

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Roy DeBerry learned at an early age what could happen to a black boy who violated Mississippi's Jim Crow-era...

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GOP struggles to recruit Black voters, candidates

Courier Newsroom - June 9, 2014

SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Like an eager date, Leo Smith showed up at Mount Zion First Baptist Church with a bouquet of flowers in...

Opinion

Are Republicans serious about courting Blacks?

Courier Newsroom - June 9, 2014

The biggest complaints I get from Black journalists when it comes to Republican officeholders and Party leaders is that they can’t get their calls...

Sports

Money woes, declining talent plague HBCU football

Courier Newsroom - May 29, 2014

In this May 2, 2014 file photo, Jackie Slater is introduced before the inaugural Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest at the International...

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Protester's 1971 death still echoes in 2 families

Courier Newsroom - May 11, 2014

BUTLER, Ala. (AP) — Carrie Johnson and Gladden Smith are bound together by a single, deadly moment — a moment for which she says...

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Jimmy Carter says his life shaped by ‘Black Culture’

Courier Newsroom - April 15, 2014

AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Although he grew up in a rural farming community in Georgia during an era of rigid racial segregation in the...

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Meredith: Noose on integration statue 'foolish'

Courier Newsroom - March 1, 2014

LUMBERTON, Miss. (AP) — The man who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962 says the recent desecration of a statue of him should...

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A star's downfall at historically Black Alcorn

Courier Newsroom - February 23, 2014

LORMAN, Miss. (AP) — M. Christopher Brown II was regarded as a rising star in the world of historically Black universities and a transformational...

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