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With slavery's impact, how do Black residents find ancestors


With slavery s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors
ISABELLE TAFT, The Sun-Herald
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) Her tree was incomplete.
That’s how it looked to Melissa Evans when she compared her family tree to the ones created by her third-grade classmates. Some of her white classmates had branches stretching back centuries. Evans, one of only a handful of Black students at her school in Gulfport, traced her family to her great-grandparents.
When other students asked why Evans’ tree was so short, their teacher didn’t want to talk about slavery, how it tore apart Black families in the United States, and Evans isn’t sure it would have been the right setting for the conversation anyway. More than 30 years later, she remembers the feeling of embarrassment, of lacking something. ....

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MSDH, state libraries team up to supply radon test kits


MSDH, state libraries team up to supply radon test kits
The Mississippi State Department of Health and the state s public library system are teaming up this week to distribute radon gas test kits. (Source: WWNY)
By WDAM Staff | January 24, 2021 at 7:04 PM CST - Updated January 24 at 7:50 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi State Department of Health’s radon program is partnering with the Mississippi Public Library System this week to offer free radon home test kits as part of “Radon Action Month.”
Radon is an odorless, colorless gas and is the second leading cause of lung cancer nationwide. More than 20,000 Americans die of radon-related lung cancer each year, and radon causes up to 15 percent of lung cancers worldwide. ....

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