Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated PressSportsMississippi Flag Could Hurt Bid for SEC Baseball TourneyThe Confederate symbol on the Mississippi flag could hurt the state’s bid to host the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament starting in 2012 because some people find the emblem offensive, a top conference official said Tuesday.August 11, 2010HealthMississippi Ranks Worst for Children’s Well BeingIt comes as no surprise to Mississippi educators and policy makers that a new national survey ranks the perennially poor state as worst in the nation for children’s well being based on health and poverty statistics.July 27, 2010Leadership & PolicyMason Says Jackson State Improved During 10-year PresidencyJackson State University President Ronald Mason said Monday he’s leaving JSU with a better campus, a larger research budget and a stronger relationship with the local business community as he prepares to take a new job heading the Southern University System in Louisiana.May 3, 2010African-AmericanIndependent Scholar Examines Cotton Trade and Race in BookAfter decades of working in international finance and lecturing occasionally at universities, Gene Dattel has written Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power, a history of the U.S. cotton trade in the 19th and 20th centuries.November 30, 2009Previous PagePage 2 of 2
