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July 5, 2007

Tribe poised for new chief

The Clarion-Ledger, 7/5/7 Beasley Denson, who challenged longtime Chief Phillip Martin to lead the Mississippi Choctaws, seemed to clinch the head tribal seat with a modest lead Wednesday evening, according to unofficial results. Denson, a former vice chief, emerged with a 184-vote lead, but the Tribal Election Committee had not finished counting the challenged ballots,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 5, 2007

Memo to Ike Brown: Discrimination against whites illegal, too

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/4/7 Much of Mississippi’s history in the 1960s was written in the blood of African-American Mississippians who were beaten bloody, burned out and in some cases even murdered simply for seeking to exercise their right to vote. Last week, in a first-of-its-kind case anywhere in the nation, Judge Lee said Justice Department…