Jackson Advocate News Service

Bennie McRae: Recapturing essential black history

Kentucky isn’t the first thing that comes to Bennie McRae’s mind when his hometown of Louisville is mentioned. You see, Bennie McRae, Jr., the nationally renowned master researcher and Civil War guru, was born in Louisville, Alabama, and not in the big-horse town almost 550 miles due north of his birthplace. He and his wife of 58 years, Virgilene McRae, live in Trotwood, Ohio today. They first moved to Cincinnati in 1957 for one year, then to Dayton, and on to Trotwood in 1979. They’ve been there ever since.

SATCHMO! A Tribute To Louis Armstrong The Natchez Festival of music features Kimble Funchess

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Recognizing the Centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Congresswoman: ‘weak laws hinder police arrests of gun traffickers’

The near-stagnant pace of federal gun law reform and lack of gun possession restrictions in Mississippi make it easy to get a gun in the Magnolia State — and for hundreds of them to end up on Chicago streets every year.

A Smith & Wesson bought in MS killed a teen in Chicago

Malcolm Stuckey was pulling up in a burgundy Pontiac Grand Prix to his friend’s birthday party in Chicago’s once-prosperous Englewood neighborhood when a bullet fired from a gun, bought 840 miles away in Mississippi, tore into his brain. His killing in 2014 placed the 19-year-old college student, college basketball player, and museum janitor among 2,581 people shot in Chicago, which recorded 4,133 shootings in 2020. The city has counted more than 1,100 shootings already this year, according to the Chicago Tribune.

2021 Legacy Change Agents scholarship recipients announced

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Letter to the Editor

Systemic cheating threatens quality of U.S. education