Author Archives: John Luke McCord
OxFilm, a new organization under the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, has announced a new program established in an effort to enhance the film culture and industry in Oxford. OxFilm will soon begin a filmmakers equipment loan program. The organization plans to purchase film equipment and lend it to promote filmmaking in Lafayette County. Steve Boseman, a former Oxonian, is...
Senior living home Emeritus at Oxford and The University of Mississippi Department of Social Work hosted a Virtual Dementia Tour. In an effort to cultivate awareness of the difficulties faced by those afflicted by Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers, Oxford senior living home Emeritus and The University of Mississippi‘s Department of Social Work hosted...
The most powerful threat to North Korea is not South Korea. It’s not America or Texas either. Some time ago, Google found concentration camps inside the most secretive country in the world. Estimates of near 200,000 North Koreans were found living in gulag concentration camps, forced to work under punishment of rape, torture and often death according to Shin Dong-hyuk,...
Growing up, most of us can recall our parents admonishing us not to waste food by claiming that there are starving kids around the world who would dream of having that food. Although children rightly roll their eyes when they hear this because the food cannot get to the starving, our parents do have a point. There are starving children around the world who desperately...
