Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the followers and readers of this blog! Below is a column I wrote for Christmas 2010. It still is...
JACKSON, Miss. – Mariachi guitarist Johnny Mora’s bout with drugs was years in his past, but the legacy of jail time it led to is as...
Remembering the late Mississippi populist Gov. Bill Allain preaching social justice to 3,000 Pentecostals. More than 3,000 Pentecostals had gathered under their giant tabernacle in Raymond,...
Way back in 1988, I sat across from Strom Thurmond in his Capitol Hill office in Washington, D.C., and listened as he explained his opposition to...
OXFORD, Miss. – The letters from Edwards, Miss., began arriving around 11 years ago. The penmanship was a big, wild scrawl not always easy to read....
This article originally appeared in the Jackson Free Press and appears here with permission. OXFORD, Miss. – The great journalist, raconteur, and connoisseur of good food A.J....
The NAACP partners with Nissan and Walmart pushes “Made in America” By: Joe Atkins, HT.com, blogger The central theme of this short Labor South round-up could be hypocrisy....
By Joe Atkins, HT.com blogger CANTON, Miss. – Hayat Mohamed has a cause. “We are different from other generations,” says the 19-year-old English major at...
By Joe Atkins, HottyToddy.com blogger My recent trip to Hong Kong and Beijing came at a time full of news for those cities and the region....
OXFORD, Miss. – My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and...