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Chief Phyllis making a difference

Becky Gillette — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:42:13 +0000

On October 2011, Phyllis J. Anderson took over as the first woman in history to serve as chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Neshoba County. It was a turbulent time with controversy over some of the tribe’s gaming operations, and an FBI raid that was followed by the resignation of the Price [...]

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Klansman Edgar Ray Killen says he didn’t sign over land

Associated Press — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:19:08 +0000

JACKSON — Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen claims in new court documents that he didn’t sign over power of attorney or ownership of 40 acres of land to a black former prisoner. James Stern served time with Killen at a Mississippi prison. He claims Killen, who is serving a 60-year sentence for civil [...]

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Education meets exposure — Millsaps partners with MBCI for entrepreneurial camp

Clay Chandler — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:01:09 +0000

“Marketing creates value,” Dr. Penny Prenshaw told a group of 12 Choctaw Indian high school students on the campus of Millsaps College last week. That was the primary lesson Prenshaw wanted to pass along during one of the sessions that made up the on-campus portion of the Youth Entrepreneurial Summer Camp offered by the Else [...]

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