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State Rep. Willie Bailey, D-Greenville, speaks at a legislative redistricting hearing Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, at Delta State University in Cleveland. Credit: Michael Goldberg/Mississippi Today

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Redistricting hearing turns tense in US Rep. Bennie Thompson’s backyard

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,09/03/26-7:30PM, 184 Reads 7,120 Statewide
Most Mississippi residents who spoke on Tuesday at the first public hearing on redistricting in the Delta criticized what they saw as a Republican push for power at the expense of Black representation, while some others said they support swift action to redraw electoral maps.
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Work is all

By PETER GILDERSON PETER GILDERSON
Thu,09/03/26-9:50AM, 170 Reads 6,444 Statewide
My all-boys high school in England had a theme song using the title--Absque Labore Nihil. The translation of that Latin title is: Without work nothing. We sang that song on important occasions, such as the final assembly gathering before the summer break. You can imagine how lustily we sang with that future in mind. The song went like this:
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Civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins shares with visitors what it was like to be the youngest Freedom Rider at 13 years old in 1961, at the Two Mississippi Museums, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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Hezekiah Watkins gets birthday wishes at Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

By SIMEON GATES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY SIMEON GATES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,09/03/26-7:34PM, 153 Reads 6,353 Statewide
At age 79, civil rights veteran Hezekiah Watkins would do it all over again.
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Don’t look now here comes Jackson

By TOM JOHNSON TOM JOHNSON
Thu,09/03/26-9:42AM, 148 Reads 6,066 Statewide
My wife and I moved to Jackson 30 years ago. We arrived having moved 20 times in more than 28 years with the Army, so we had the opportunity to live in many different towns, cities, states and countries. My first impression moving to Jackson is that this city was a diamond in the rough.
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