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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
July 29, 2020

SALTER: A genuine political change agent, activist Charles Evers was a walking contradiction

By: Sid Salter Charles Evers, who died last week at the age of 97, changed Mississippi politics in ways that are profound and enduring. Yet Evers was for most of his life a walking contradiction in both his public and private lives. Civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King – with whom Evers later…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 24, 2020

MDE announces districts will finalize start of the year plans by July 31

All Mississippi school districts will finalize plans for the start of the new school year by July 31. State law requires Mississippi schools to operate 180 days each school year, with the school year ending by June 30. By law, school districts are in charge of setting their school calendars, including the first and last…