Authors' suit charges racial bias in history book By CHAT BLAKEMAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Tue, August 29, 1979 Is a ninth-grade cl...

Private schools take little interest in controversial text Clarion Ledger Thursday, January 22, 1981 By NELL LUTER - FOCUS Writer  Jackson...

Like many cities in the South, by 1963, Jackson, Mississippi, closed all of its public swimming pools rather than integrate them as required...

I’ve been delaying working on this for a few days.  Sometimes, what I have to say makes me uncomfortable. My father had eight children. Four...

This project that I’m calling “Lies My Mother Never Told Me” has been openly banging around in my head for about a year and a half now.   Qu...

If I'm going to write about what happened in the sixties and early seventies, I feel like I need to be able to at least understand and a...

I’m working on a project.  I don’t know what to call it yet.  Part of it might be “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  For this project, I’ve ma...

 The genius of the Citizens Council, the thing that made them both the most effective and the most evil, was that they equated segregation w...

 In 1940, Governor Paul Johnson pushed for a change to the Mississippi code to allow for the state to pay for free textbooks for Mississippi...

People talk about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and how the South converted from Yellow-dog Democrats to the world’s most conservative Republi...

 Here on the front end of sixty, here is the tally on my experience with guns: A few dead deer.  Several dead ducks and doves.  A few dead s...

There's a fairly popular myth that woke liberal politicians broke in and changed the Mississippi state flag in the middle of the night, ...

For my writing workshop today, we were assigned to bring in photo prompts for some free writing.  I have a folder on my phone of a couple hu...