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Black alumni of Starkville’s Moor High School fight to preserve its property, heritage
Oktibbeha County and its county seat, known today as Starkville, can trace their history back for more than 2,000 years. But Black institutions in the central northeast Mississippi area are in danger of being erased from history in less than half a century with no trace left behind to link the future with their past achievements and memories. The alumni association of the closed Moor High School has complained publicly for the past six years.
Congress passes bill to make Juneteeth a federal holiday
Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green began recognizing Juneteenth as a paid holiday in his office last year, so when the Senate passed legislation this week to make the date that commemorates freedom a national holiday, the congressman was among the first to cheer.
Remembering ‘a man among men’
The weekend before this year’s Father’s Day weekend, Reena Evers-Everette honored her father, Medgar Evers, and the legacy that he left 58 years after he was assassinated at their family home on June 12, 1963.
