South's enduring past intrigues teacher By NELL LITTER FOCUS Staff Writer  Clarion Ledger June 15, 1983 Steve Anspach is a Northerner ch...

 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...

 Tomorrow's story for the Eudora Welty reading group is "A Visit of Charity" from "A Curtain of Green."  The story i...

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

So, every year, rain or shine or covid, they have this big party, so big they call it the "Super Bowl," and people put quite a bit...

  A teacher at the Laurel Magnet School of the Arts and former winner of the Mississippi Educator of the Year, Landon Bryant is the creator ...

They seem to be loosening the rules on what comprises a King Cake.  When they get to chocolate, somebody send me a text message.  

 Alan Ball is a playwright and screenwriter from Mariette, Georgia.  He's a Southern gentleman of a certain age (six years older than I ...

For quite a while now, I’ve been collecting the urban legends that emanate from students and employees at the University of Mississippi Medi...

 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...

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...

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...

Last night my friend Tom messaged me that Morgan Freeman was giving a lecture at Millsaps in a movie.  “The Ritual Killer,” now streaming on...

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...

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