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Tuesday marked an important, if painful, anniversary in Mississippi.

Hugh is a queer. That was the word that circulated through the school playground and among the kids at our church, which Hugh also attended.

The Rasta and hippie movements swept Jamaica and the United States in June 1973 when Roger Steffens discovered reggae. Fifty years later, the man regarded globally as an authority on Jamaican pop ...

My dad was opposed to gambling on moral grounds, but on practical grounds as well.

For Black Music Month, we discuss the roots of reggae from The Techniques to Bob Marley and the Wailers.

A few months ago, my health insurance company insisted that I have a thorough check-up, perhaps on account of my age.

The passing of Memorial Day has come to be accepted as the beginning of summer, although officially the season does not arrive until the summer solstice on June 21.

When I was growing up, my dad worked for the Tupelo Water and Light Department and sometimes had to work a 4-hour shift as a dispatcher on Saturday.

In November, Mississippians will choose their 66th governor. Republican incumbent Tate Reeves faces off against Democrat Brandon Presley, a public service commissioner and former mayor of Nettleton.

Since 2005, students in the African American history class at Mississippi School of Mathematics and Science have staged a program in conjunction with the Eighth of May, the day Columbus slaves were emancipated by federal troops – May 8, 1865.