How often have you heard that we lived in simpler times? When people my age say it, they’re often forgetting the Cold War, the culture war,...

Reprinted from Clarion Ledger Jackson MS April 19, 1962 Ancient Bones Give View Of Past To Digging Crew  Workers digging at the Pearl River ...

 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...

 Next week, I'm beginning to read "The Question of God" by  Armand Nicholi.  The book is a series of fictional conversations b...

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

 Stage and dance floor, Lamar Theater/Disco, Downtown Jackson, 1979

 In August 1969, Hurricane Camille devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  The destruction was unbelievable.  In some cases, shrimp boats we...

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...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

 Ken Stribling messaged me last night with corrections about a piece I wrote at 3:00 a.m.  What would I do without friends who can’t sleep e...

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...

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...

Because I'm old, I take a diuretic to make sure my body doesn't retain water because my body works about as well as a 1982 Ford.  It...

In the original 1820's map for Jackson, roads were set up on a square grid pattern, starting with the intersection of Capitol Street and...

 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...