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How the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina Radicalized Young People Into Climate Activists
Teen Vogue
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August 28, 2025
Chasity Hunter was six when Hurricane Katrina hit. She remembers specifically how high the water rose in their home—so much so that her mother, aunt, uncle, grandmother, and three younger siblings had to start climbing the stairs in their public...
Mississippi College PA students reach patient care milestone at White Coat Ceremony
The Clinton Courier - Mississippi
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August 28, 2025
D’Artagnan Kilgore has seen several of his friends graduate from Physician Assistant school, but he’s never attended what some consider the most memorable milestone of a PA student’s journey: the White Coat Ceremony. When the first-year PA student...
Trump administration orders states, territories to strip gender ideology from education materials
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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August 28, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services ordered Washington, D.C., 40 states, and five territories Aug. 26 to strip all references to “gender ideology” from a federally funded sexual health education program. Otherwise, they will lose millions...
Blytheville United Methodist Church hits milestone
NEA Town Courier - Arkansas
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The First United Methodist Church in Blytheville is celebrating 75 years in the Gothic-style sanctuary, standing as a landmark on the corner of Seventh Street and Main. The Methodist Church history in Blytheville goes back much further. Rev. Henry...
Online Age Checks Are Proliferating in Australia, EU, Mississippi and Elsewhere
Broadband Breakfast
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August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025 (AP) – Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13. To proponents, they're a tool to keep children away from adult websites and other...
Gun used in murder of Emmett Till acquired by Mississippi museum 70 years after his death
WANE - Indiana
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August 28, 2025
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years after he was tragically killed. The .45-caliber...
Trump Officials Tell States to Strip Gender Identity from Sex Ed Program
The 74
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August 28, 2025
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Trump administration tells 40 states to remove gender identity from sex ed or lose federal funds The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding...
How Trump used the criminal system to massively expand immigration detention
The Daily Sentinel - Colorado
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Over the last six months, Rodney Taylor has watched the Trump administration’s explosion in immigration enforcement from a detention cell in rural Georgia. Taylor, a 47-year-old who had both of his legs amputated as a child, came to the United...
Contact Lens Institute Culture Awards Nominations Now Open
Invision - New Jersey
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August 28, 2025
(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON, D.C — Nominations are now being accepted for the third annual Contact Lens Institute (CLI) Culture Awards through October 1. The program honors eye care professionals who foster a positive contact lens culture,...
Trump Administration pushes Alabama to drop gender ideology found in federally funded education materials
Yellowhammer News - Alabama
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August 28, 2025
The State of Alabama recently received a letter from the Trump Administration, mandating the end of all references to gender ideology in federally-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) educational materials. The order must be...
On Emmett Till’s 70th Death Anniversary, Mississippi Museums Remember Survivors, Witnesses and Activists
Mississippi Free Press
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August 28, 2025
White men kidnapped, mutilated and murdered Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, on Aug. 28, 1955—a murder that sparked national outrage and helped kick off the Civil Rights Movement. But in the decades after a jury made up of only white men...
'Unacceptable:' Al Gore wants to end industry growth on Mississippi. Local officials push back
The Advocate - Louisiana
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Below a small painting of a burning bush, in a church sitting between the CF Industries and Mosaic ammonia plants near Donaldsonville, former Vice President Al Gore called Wednesday for River Parish residents to lead the nation in sunsetting the...
Trump HHS tells states to remove gender ideology from sex ed or lose PREP funding
The Center Square
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(The Center Square) – The Trump administration directed 46 states and territories to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials or else face possible termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding, with a...
On Emmett Till’s 70th Death Anniversary, Mississippi Museums Remember Survivors, Witnesses and Activists
Mississippi Free Press
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August 28, 2025
White men kidnapped, mutilated and murdered Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, on Aug. 28, 1955—a murder that sparked national outrage and helped kick off the Civil Rights Movement. But in the decades after a jury made up of only white men...
“Education Reform” Has Undermined Public Schools’ Popularity
Jacobin
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If you’re a supporter of public education, it has been a tough summer. And if you, like me, have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of school privatization, it’s impossible to ignore the sense that the future we’ve been warning about has...
Mississippi College confers emeritus status upon accomplished former faculty members
The Clinton Courier - Mississippi
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August 27, 2025
Eleven of Mississippi College’s most influential former faculty members received emeritus status from the institution during its 2025 Faculty and Staff Convocation on August 11. Dr. Michael J. Highfield, MC provost and executive vice president,...
New Mississippi River Bridge crowned 'King's Crossing'
State Gazette - Tennessee
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The new I-55 Mississippi River bridge has gained an official name. Leaders in Arkansas and Tennessee agreed to call the structure “Kings Crossing”, a title designed to honor Martin Luther King Jr, blues legend B.B. King and rock icon Elvis...
‘God is faithful’: 20 years after Katrina, New Orleans Catholics rebuild
The Pillar
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August 29, 2025
Twenty years ago this week, Louisiana was rocked by Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf Coast and led to levee breaches and widespread flooding in New Orleans. A damaged statue of the Virgin Mary is...
70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him
WBAA Public Radio - Indiana
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August 28, 2025
JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a river for whistling at a white shopkeeper. His...
EDUCATION: McMaster says SC will remove goofy stuff
My Clinton News - South Carolina
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BY: SHAUNEEN MIRANDA AUGUST 26, 2025 5:17 PM WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at...