Feb 14 Watch 1:52 Viewers respond to manufacturing boom in Columbus, Mississippi By PBS News Hour Alison Stewart reads viewer comments about a recent report about a manufacturing boom in the South that has prompted several international companies to open up shop in places like Columbia, Miss., which has been suffering under the effects of poverty… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 9:24 Will new manufacturing ease Mississippi's 'psychosis of poverty?' By PBS News Hour In Mississippi, where the unemployment rate peaks at 15 percent in some areas, pockets of new manufacturing have ignited hopes for an economic rebirth. And while signs of growth give some people hope for a new era, how much will… Continue watching
Sep 26 Tea party challenger in Mississippi Senate race not going down easy By Quinn Bowman Three months ago, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran shocked the political world by winning a Republican primary runoff against his tea party challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel. But the story isn't over. The McDaniel campaign is challenging the results of the… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Tea party Senate challenge in Mississippi shows rift in the GOP By PBS News Hour The intense primary battle between veteran Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and state senator Chris McDaniel in Mississippi shows that the rift between the populist tea party and the establishment wing of the GOP is not yet healed. And the general… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch Need persists for new generation of Freedom Schools, 50 years after first summer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 08 When Mississippi schools wouldn't integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors By April Brown, Mike Fritz In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,… Continue reading
Jul 17 McDaniel campaign expected to challenge runoff election loss within 10 days By Paul Boger, Mississippi Public Broadcasting Although it's been three weeks since the Republican primary runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, tea party challenger Chris McDaniels is not ready to concede to six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran won that election by nearly… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch HIV rebound in young child is 'another step' in long process of AIDS research By PBS News Hour AIDS researchers announced a setback in the long search for a cure. Doctors believed that they had cured a baby girl by using aggressive and early treatment. But after years without requiring therapy, she tested positive for HIV during a… Continue watching
Jul 09 Politics sets backdrop for President Obama, Perry meeting By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: President Obama, Texas governor to meet about border Where does Mr. Obama's immigration ask go in Congress? Mississippi Senate fallout gets messy with allegations of criminal corruption and vitriolic name-calling For RNC, Cleveland Rocks,… Continue reading
Jul 04 Mississippi's black community seeks Cochran's help after runoff win By Bill Barrow, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — After black voters helped Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran survive an intense Republican primary runoff against an insurgent conservative challenger, some civil rights leaders in the South want him to repay the favor. Their request? Cochran should lead… Continue reading