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A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is taking steps to provide more information about Black history. (Feb. 29) (AP Video: Stephen Smith)

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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Thu,02/29/24-9:47AM , 698 Reads
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history.
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During his final week in office, Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant ponders a question in the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on, Jan. 8, 2020. Nancy New, who was convicted in 2022 in a welfare misspending case, said in a court filing Feb. 26, 2024, that Bryant told people in 2019, during his final weeks of office, that he had been offered a financial stake in a company that had received welfare money for its effort to develop a concussion drug. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi ex-governor expected stake in firm that got welfare money, says woman convicted in fraud
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,02/28/24-3:26PM , 360 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov.
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FILE _ The logo of the Mississippi Department of Corrections is shown on the shirt of a corrections officer on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. The U.S. Justice Department released a report Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, saying Mississippi has failed to protect inmates at three prisons from violence because it does not adequately supervise incarcerated people, control contraband or investigate harm and misconduct, (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Justice Department finds problems with violence, gangs and poor conditions in 3 Mississippi prisons
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,02/28/24-10:56AM , 527 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gangs, violence and sexual assaults are a problem in three Mississippi prisons because the facilities are short-staffed and inmates are sometimes left unsupervised, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report Wednesday.
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Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves delivers his State of the State address to the Mississippi State Legislature, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Republican Mississippi governor ignores Medicaid expansion and focuses on jobs in State of the State
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Mon,02/26/24-6:47PM , 535 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he intentionally avoided hot-button issues and political conflict in his State of the State speech Monday, instead calling for legislators to support economic development by funding roads, ports and bridges.
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