Along with telling hard truth, hope is part of the work then and now. faithandleadership.com/new-document...
A new documentary focuses on a Civil Rights era journalist and the truth he helped share
Bill Minor’s reporting was important to the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the nation. His vocation was informed and sustained by his faith, a documentarian writes.
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John Mark Pitner’s wry story captures a serious truth about 1970 school integration which has continuing impact. The initial success of public school integration varied town to town, hinging on how key local leaders framed the importance of making it work admissionsprojects.com/2026/03/30/d...
Don’t Torpedo It, He Told My Daddy – Admissions
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The Colbert interview that CBS preemptively blocked before the FCC could shut it down has already crossed 1.5 million views on YouTube.
The Late-Night TV Interview Trump’s FCC Goon Doesn't Want You to See
CBS preemptively blocked Stephen Colbert’s interview before the FCC could shut it down.
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Spread the word that Eyes on Mississippi is available nationally via pbs.org The resonance with today hits hard www.pbs.org/show/eyes-on...
Eyes on Mississippi
In the 1960s, Mississippi was a civil rights hot spot. Bill Minor reported on it with blunt honesty.
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Love and support to Congregation Beth Israel here in Jackson today and always
Airing again 2 pm CST Sunday on Mississippi Public Broadcasting
7:30 CST tonight on MPB. Other times: 12-5 at 2 am, 12-7 at 2 pm & 12-17 at 4 pm mississippitoday.org/2025/12/04/b...
Documentary on legendary Mississippi civil rights journalist Bill Minor to make television debut - Mississippi Today
A portrait of Minor and his dispatches from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, the film offers viewers a trenchant view of how journalism and race relations intersect.
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Reserve your seat for 6 pm Tuesday Dec. 2 at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting auditorium for an early screening of Eyes on Mississippi, tracking the state’s civil rights timeline through the experience of journalist Bill Minor. Broadcast 7:30 Thursday Dec. 4 on MPB
Honored to work with Beatrice Alexander’s family to tell how she and 387 others in Holmes County Mississippi ended stalled school integration in the South through their 1969 Supreme Court win
Oxford American@oxfordamerican.bsky.social · 10mo ago“If we don’t tell these stories, we kill the strength of the next generation.” —Santrece Ross discovers her mother was the lead plaintiff in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education in this new feature by Ellen Ann Fentress 🔗: https://shorturl.at/nDM6K
Mannerly ask & wit at the Texaco in Louisville, Mississippi today
Golden Triangle see you 6 pm Thursday at the W to talk memory, revising our truths, Mississippi and @johntedge.bsky.social new memoir House of Smoke @friendlycitybooks
‘A good education’ excuse was used to justify avoiding integration Column: My parents were “good people” and respected “all” people. But not accepting that a teacher was capable of providing a “good education” to me or my brother because that teacher was Black was racism. It still is.
‘A good education’ excuse was used to justify avoiding integration
Column: My parents were “good people” and respected “all” people. But not accepting that a teacher was capable of providing a “good education” to me or my brother because that teacher was Black was racism. It still is.
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Join us at History Is Lunch 12 pm Wednesday Oct. 1 at the Two Museums. Rita Watts Boone & I will talk admissionsprojects.com
The shorthand of that white talk about a “good education” New story by @jalvis2.bsky.social admissionsprojects.com/2025/09/04/w...
We’ve Come a Long Way. Haven’t We? – Admissions
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Nothing more delightful than media dutifully facilitating a Haley Barbour rehabilitation tour. Read the rest of the story here, by Ellen Ann Fentress, about his #HurricaneKatrina games: www.mississippifreepress.org/before-missi...
From Haley Barbour’s $570M Port Scheme to Mississippi's TANF Scandal
Then-Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million away from post-Katrina housing assistance into a port, which did not deliver on the “economic development” promised.
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His morale-boosting talk, sure, but also his walk: diverting $570 million in needed housing $ for a touted job-rich port project netting only 1 job per $2.2 million @ashtonpittman.bsky.social www.mississippifreepress.org/haley-barbours-post-katrina-leadership-remembered-fondly-was-controversial/
Haley Barbour’s Post-Katrina Leadership, Remembered Fondly, Was Controversial
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s leadership after Hurricane Katrina was often controversial despite fond recollections.
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Saturday’s the Possumtown Book Fest in Columbus. This lineup! In conversation at 11:15 with Jason McCall, Jaz Brisack, Robert Fieseler & Adam Gussow about their powerful, deeply felt new books. Friendly City Books & Emily Liner are Mississippi powerhouses
“Inculcated into acquiescent ladyhood which backfired” Works for me. Thanks @southrevbooks.bsky.social and Katharine Armbrester southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/08/t...
Performative “Southern Ladyhood” in “The Steps We Take”
An interview with journalist and author Ellen Ann Fentress.
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Her eyes, my ambition Thank you @salvationsouth.com & @chuckreece.bsky.social
Chuck Reece@chuckreece.bsky.social · last yr.@eafentress.bsky.social took what, in most writers’ hands, would have been a reflection on an artist’s career and turned it into inspiration for anyone in midlife who is driven to create. Proud to publish this in @salvationsouth.com.
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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