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A university honors its grads 51 years after police shooting Emily Wagster Pettus Updated:  Tags:  Copyright 1970. The Associated Press. All rights reserved FILE - In this May 15, 1970, file photo, the bullet-riddled windows of Alexander Hall, a women's dormitory at Jackson State College in Jackson, Miss., are shown after two African-American students were killed and 12 injured when police opened fire on the building claiming they had seen a sniper. The historically black school canceled its 1970 graduation ceremony following the violence. Fifty-one years later, now named, Jackson State Uni...

Emily Wagster Pettus FILE - In this May 15, 1970, file photo, the bullet-riddled windows of Alexander Hall, a women's dormitory at Jackson State College in Jackson, Miss., are shown after two African-American students were killed and 12 injured when police opened fire on the building claiming they had seen a sniper. The historically black school canceled its 1970 graduation ceremony following the violence. Fifty-one years later, now named, Jackson State University is honoring the Class of 1970 back to salute their academic achievements with a graduation on Saturday, May 15, 2021. ...

View Comments JACKSON, Miss. — Days after National Guard members killed four Kent State University students who were protesting the Vietnam War, white police officers marched onto the campus of a historically Black college in Mississippi’s capital city to violently suppress protests against racism. Officers shot indiscriminately after someone threw a bottle. The gunfire killed two people, injured 12 and shattered windows of a women’s dormitory where officers claimed — falsely — that they had seen a sniper. Students who earned degrees that year received their diplomas in the mail, i...

Safety Harbor’s first Black commissioner made history. He died at 85. William Blackshear also helped start The Weekly Challenger newspaper.     William Blackshear worked at General Electric's Pinellas plant as a laser welder from 1958 until 1970. [ Courtesy Harry Williams ] Dear Angelia, By compiling the enclosed stories and information, I have attempted to shed some light on the history and lives of our ancestors and to share with you events that made them real, alive and exciting. In his spiral-bound collection, William Blackshear wrote vivid stories about his life. Those advent...

The Atlantic It’s time for a new Federal Writers’ Project. 11:38 AM ET (NATIONAL ARCHIVE / NEWSMAKERS / GETTY) In its $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration seeks to expand the public’s conception of what is and is not infrastructure. It is right to do so. Infrastructure is not just the bridge we drive across; it is the home health aides who look after our parents and grandparents. Infrastructure is not simply the train we ride, but also the day care where we drop our children off before heading to work. Democrats are in a position to expand that definition even f...