Kimberly Hilliard is passionate about neighborhood transformation. She is a former engineer and aviation planner who moved to Jackson, Miss., in 2000 to work on urban regional planning. “I had a vision for transformation in...

The man known as Eb was born in Laurel, Mississippi. More than acting and being a farmer was Tom Lester’s faith in God. When I was a teenager, our family’s black-and-white television set was in...

COLUMBUS, Miss.— Laverne Greene smiled as students unveiled a new historic marker at the Mississippi University for Women that honors her for being among the first six Black women to integrate into the university...

As a product of the Delta, Reed was a world-class storyteller. Her long history of writing, sometimes irreverently, included politics, fashion, food, and her favorite – human predicaments. The Mississippi Arts Commission has announced the...

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. – Ecclesiastes 1:14 The book of Ecclesiastes shows us what life is like “under the...

Always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. – 1 Thessalonians 5:15 Do you ever think that the Bible’s commands seem impossibly all-encompassing? Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians 5 is chock-full of...

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained...

It’s mid-October, so hopefully your kids have decided on a Halloween costume, and you’ve been able to locate the perfect one and have either pulled all of the pieces together or are waiting on...

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you...