One of the nicest things about Tunica town is peoples’ manners and friendly natures. This is a characteristic of all Tunicans, young and old, black and white, male and female.

Rocking in a wooden chair on the front porch Chewing on a plug of Red Man tobacco, My grandfather talked, droning like cicadas On a summer night. His favorite topic: politics.

In February, a new grief support group was launched in Tunica. Ten adults and 12 youth participated in the first meeting organized by the Mental Health Community Group.

Dear Ted and Abbay, It deeply saddens me to hear that your hard work and desire to create a viable source of news is coming to such a short ending. Last April when we all met and I said that a newspaper in Tunica was what this community needed to spread news of vital happenings in both black and white areas, I had high hopes for your success.

According to the National Highway Safety Transportation Administration, driver distraction accounts for several thousand deaths on the nation’s highways every year. Cell phones, obviously, have deepened the dilemma almost as much as another, bigger reason: We are more distracted than ever.

While Coretta Scott King’s support and ideas were particularly influential on her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., many other women played essential roles in the success of the civil rights movement.

We recently marked the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. While the war drags on, democracy continues its long decline. Less than half the world’s population lives in a democracy of some kind according to The Economists’ Democracy Index.

In her forthcoming book, “The Impact of College Diversity: Struggles and Successes at Age 30,” Amherst College psychology professor Elizabeth Aries reported a disturbing dual reality for black students enrolled in the small Massachusetts college where she teaches.

Do you seek the meaning of life? When one looks at this world today, how does the world make sense to you? I remember a world that I felt secure in to explore and discover with sense of awe at the magnificent creation around me. COMMENTARY In these recent years, in spite of the advances in technology that brings more information to this world, there is a growing absence in the simplicity of joy.

Mississippi Today Philip Gunn over three terms as speaker of the Mississippi House had pulled off the near-impossible: He gained de facto control over what legislation lived or died in the chamber, and often even what bills could be openly discussed or amended.