Mississippi

Katrina: A 10-Year Review

This week is the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the southeastern gulf coast by Hurricane Katrina.
More than 1,800 people died. There is no estimate for the number of pets and wildlife. Damage was estimated at more than $100 billion.
About 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. In Mississippi, the water surge flooded as much as 10 miles from the beaches.
The Category 3 storm should not have caused that much damage, but it exposed poorly-designed levees that should have protected New Orleans.

Choctaw medicine man, civil rights activist dies after being booked into historically infamous Mississippi jail

PrivacySOS | July 26, 2015 Just weeks after Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail cell after having been arrested during a traffic stop, another activist is dead in eerily similar circumstances. The day after Bland died, long-time Choctaw civil rights activist Rexdale Henry was found dead in a jail cell in Neshoba County Jail […]

Mississippi Republican Admits He Wants To Defund Public Education Because Some Of The Money Is Spent On Black Children

The hotheads and traitors in control of South Carolina, seceded on December 20, 1860, soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Although Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee didn't follow suit until the following spring, the state that jumped to follow South Carolina's lead first was Mississippi-- where Lincoln hadn't even been on the ballot-- seceding January 9, 1861. Mississippi was one of the 7 original states to form the Confederacy.

Racist Fanatic William Colmer Has A Minority Majority School In Pascagoula Named After Him-- Plus Hawaii Update

The William M. Colmer Middle School is in Pascagoula, Mississippi. 46% of the students are African-Americans and 15% are Hispanic. 79% of the students are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch program, somewhat higher than the average for Mississippi (71%). The school is named for Representative William M. Colmer who died on September 9, 1980 (age 90) and is buried at Machpelah Cemetery right their in Pascagoula.

Will The Ugliness Of The GOP Primary In Mississippi Swamp McConnell In Kentucky?

On top of the court case he filed last week to vacate the results of the Mississippi Senate election, Tea Party sore loser Chris McDaniel has been trying to pick a new fight-- this time with poor, embattled Miss McConnell, threatening to turn Kentucky's far right fringe-- which he so desperately needs in his neck-and-neck fight against Alison Lundergan Grimes-- into a pack of s