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Michaela McDonald, Kaity Quinn and Laura Kate Robinson were recently selected to represent the local area as Miss Hospitality delegates and will participate in the 2024 Mississippi Miss Hospitality program

Alice Keats was recently crowned Neshoba County’s Miss Hospitality and says she is incredibly excited to be traveling to Hattiesburg for the state pageant in July.

The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) has awarded $5.2 million to 34 arts organizations throughout the state for the current fiscal year. Funding going to the organizations will be granted through the Building Fund for the Arts (BFA) grant, which supports the repair, renovation, expansion, or construction of Mississippi facilities that...

Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.

Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.

Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.

Humphrey is remembered for his defense of an unpopular war in Vietnam, but author Sam Freedman says the former mayor of Minneapolis played a critical role in getting Democrats to embrace civil rights.

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality

The convention was a battle between the forces of inclusive, expansive democracy and those espousing a narrower, hostile concept of who fully belonged to America.

On this day in 1948, the Mississippi delegation stormed out of the Democratic convention when it adopted a civil rights platform.