Tag Archives: Confederate Heritage month

UM NAACP celebrates Confederate Heritage Month their way

After Gov. Phil Bryant declared April Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, UM NAACP members planned to take their own approach in observing the state’s...

Confederate Heritage Month in context

I have seen a lot of very angry posts lately on social media about Gov. Phil Bryant signing a proclamation naming April as Confederate Heritage Month. Granted, I am not a supporter of Bryant and I do find this timing rather distasteful, but I find the disdain for this designation unnecessary. I am not going to defend the fact that the American Civil War was not about slavery. ...

Chaining Mississippi to a despicable past

The Mississippi territory has existed since 1798, but the legislative and executive branches of our state government have repeatedly decided that 1861-1865...

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