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NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss. capital
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 1:07 AMNAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group's former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home.
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Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 9:57 AMIt can't meet the mandates of a 2012 state law and the governor wants to shut it down, but Mississippi's only abortion clinic is not about to quietly retreat.
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Post-Faulkner, his hometown celebrates
Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMOXFORD, Miss. – Five decades after his death, William Faulkner still draws literary pilgrims to his hometown here, the "little postage stamp of native soil" he made famous through his novels.
