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Culture  |  Russ Latino  • 
January 7, 2023

Four Points of Inspiration for 2023

How the story of abolition in England nearly 200 years ago can help us find our place in 2023. There once was a man named John Newton. Newton was involved in the English slave trade as the master of the slave ships the ‘Duke of Argyle’ and the ‘African.’ He tortured his captives, using lashings…
Culture  |  Brandon Presley  • 
January 6, 2023

Fifteen dollars could have changed Elvis’ destiny

It may have been the best $15 ever saved by Noah Presley. January 8, 2023, marks the 88th anniversary of the birth of my cousin and Mississippi’s own Elvis Presley. That boy, born in East Tupelo on the wrong side of the tracks during hard economic times in 1935, would go on to become one…