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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
July 30, 2021

Wicker, Kelly among legislators celebrating declaration of Gold Star Children’s Day

Senate passed Gold Star Children’s Day resolution on Thursday.  U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., along with U.S. Representatives Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Trent Kelly, R-Miss., celebrated the designation of August 1, 2021 as Gold Star Children’s Day. The Senate passed a resolution introduced by Wicker and Manchin to officially set aside…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
July 29, 2021

Wicker calls out for justice for Mississippi Olympian

Wicker says the false positive COVID test should not disqualify Sam Kendricks. Olympian Sam Kendricks, a pole vaulter from Oxford, Mississippi, was denied the opportunity to compete at the Tokyo Olympics after a single positive COVID-19 test. Kendricks had tested negative three times before the positive test. After entering quarantine, Kendricks took another COVID-19 test that…