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Almost 60 years ago, 20-year-old Marvin Griffin joined the efforts of the Council of Federated Organizations during Freedom Summer. He and his cohorts fought to help Black citizens overcome poll taxes and literacy tests and register to vote, while facing harassment, threats and possible arrest.

A former educator at Trinity School claims he faced a poop-filled harassment campaign from colleagues -- and was ultimately canned because of his gender.

On the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn in October, Dylan Wiley portrayed a man named Charles Williams for the second time. It was part of a “Community Read” partnership between Columbus and Mississippi University for Women meant to highlight local Black history.

Rockets, Flyers work for positioning in the NBC Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Despite not being in the same conference for decades, Lake and Oak Harbor are fairly familiar with one another.

For months, students in Chuck Yarborough’s African American History class at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science have been conducting research.

Joan Elizabeth Coleman, age 89, of Flora, Illinois, passed away Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Joan was born the daughter of Louis James "Toots" and Mary Katherine "Kay" Emling February 22, 1933. She was raised in DuQuoin, Illinois, with her sister Verda and this is where she met the love of her life, Thomas "Ed" Coleman. Joan and Ed were childhood sweethearts and celebrated 69 years of marriage this past summer. Joan and Ed were united in marriage on June 28, 1953. Be...