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Five Mississippi organizations received more than $1 million in grants from the Southern Poverty Law Center to help with voter registration and mobilization, the center announced today. Dubbed Southern Echo, Mississippi’s voter movement will engage in year-round voter registration. The organization also will lead redistricting training sessions and help community members to develop sample district […]

Contributing Writer, African-American history is living history, building upon what has been established as well as establishing new blocks to build upon. Mississippi is profoundly rich in African-American history, being “ground zero” for so much of our collective experiences. As we say farewell to 2021’s African-American History Month, we here at The Mississippi Link give a special salute to seven Living Legends among us, those who have been in the trenches for decades and still pushing forward their progressive boundaries. These Mississippians are reflective of the resilience of our ...

December 17, 2020 THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental-South has bagged top awards at the just-concluded Information Officers' Year End Conference and Awards 2020 of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Western Visayas. Its information officer and two publications were feted in a virtual awarding ceremony on Thursday, December 17. The Southern Echo, which is the official newsletter publication of the agency, emerged as one of the Best Agency Newsletters in the region. The ARBOld Komiks, which is a joint-project of DAR-Negros Occidental II and the Office...