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The Effect of Immigrants on U.S. Employment and Productivity

The evidence is overwhelming that immigrants (including ones many like to label as "illegals") are not a drag on the U.S. economy and may even help it. Here is an …

BREAKING: White Supremacist Group posts addresses and numbers of Jena 6!

Just in case you thought we were blowing things out of proportion....again, THIS is why we're mad!

http://kentuckyanswp.blogspot.com/2007/09/addresses-of-tge-jena-6-thugsniggers.html

The JFP Interview with Steve Holland

In a matter of 24 hours, Steve Holland went from seemingly being the director of "Punk'd: Mississippi Edition" to directing funerals.

Rankin Anti-Liquor Flier Bashes Jackson

The Clarion-Ledger is reporting:

Lance Bass on God, Being Gay and Loving His Sweet Mama

Two years after I graduated from high school in 2004, Lance Bass came out of the closet on the cover of People Magazine. His revelation struck a chord for me …

Macon, Miss., Contractor Escapes; 11 More Troops Killed

AP is reporting: "In a daring escape, American hostage Thomas Hamill pried open the doors of the house where he was being held late Sunday morning and ran a half-mile …

State Flag Commission Selects Five Finalists

The Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag selected five flags to move to the final round (pending clearance of intellectual property rights).

World Leaders Push Big Companies to Pay More Taxes

Leaders of the world's 20 largest economies have committed to crack down on cross-border companies that use tax havens.

Court Date Set in Kidnapping, Assault Case

A man who allegedly lured two brothers, ages 5 and 8, from their yard in south Mississippi and took them to his camper, where he sexually abused them and slashed …

2 MDOC Officers Arrested for Having Contraband at Prisons

Two Mississippi Department of Corrections officers have been arrested after officials say they had contraband at the prisons where they worked.

Mississippi Minister Who Condemned Racism in 1960s Dies

Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died.

Two Nuns Found Slain in Mississippi Home; Motive Unclear

Authorities say two Catholic nuns have been found slain in a Mississippi home where they lived.

Zoo Brings Tour to Jackson

When they perform, the visual is as interesting as the sound. With a stage full of shiny instruments, Ammo Eisu and Andy Tisdall of the band Zoo put on a …

Tougaloo Opens Civil-Rights Center

Tougaloo College leaders and elected officials gathered Saturday to celebrate the completion of Bennie G. Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center, a project eight years in the making.

Amy Evans Streeter

As an oral historian for Southern Foodways Alliance, Amy Evans Streeter travels to pig lots in Cajun country, La., and oyster skiffs in Apalachicola, Fla., where she documents the culinary …

Wyatt Waters

The Mississippi Arts Commission has announced that Clinton artist and area favorite Wyatt Waters, known statewide for his watercolor paintings, will receive a 2010 Governor's Award for Excellence in the …

Jerrod Partridge

For Jerrod Partridge, figure drawing is more about perspective than the actual act of putting graphite to paper.

Gospel and Good Feeling

For Hurstine Watts, gospel music is a narrative art.

Trial in the Desert

The year is 1942. The United States has just entered World War II, but England still stands almost alone against the Axis powers. Germany's Afrika Korps and their Italian allies, …

Lawrence Guyot

Civil-rights leader and Mississippi native Lawrence Guyot died in his home in Mount Rainier, Md. on Thursday, Nov. 22, at age 73.