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Town: Mississippi

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Current MSMS juniors conducting the MoreStory Monuments project this school year L-R Sean Stewart (hometown: Laurel, MS); Jaelon Carter (Philadelphia, MS); Alexis Allen (Columbus, MS); Eli Bankston (Brandon, MS); Savannah Massey (Pelahatchie, MS); Ramse Jefferson (Raymond, MS); and Aniyah Allen (Jackson, MS).
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  • K-12

Mississippi Immortalizes a Lost Moment of Desegregation

  • Deborah Fallows
  • October 28, 2023
High school students honor six African American women of the 1960s.
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  • K-12

Outstanding Programs in Public Education from the American South

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 3, 2023
Lessons from Mississippi for the rest of the U.S.
Christina Zhang, student at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. Photo courtesy of Thomas Easterling.
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  • K-12

Real Mississippi podcasts: Having the Grace to Find a Sense of Place

  • Christina Zhang
  • May 13, 2022
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Christina Zhang explores how a church in Biloxi serves as a space to share and celebrate Asian-American culture.
A laptop and studio microphone perched on an open drawer of a dresser to make a makeshift studio in a dorm room
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  • K-12

Real Mississippi podcasts: You Can Go Back Home Again

  • Raegan Calvert
  • April 21, 2022
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Raegan Calvert explores the challenges and opportunities in her hometown of Wiggins, Mississippi
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
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  • Education

Real Voices from Real Mississippi

  • Thomas Easterling
  • April 8, 2022
How podcasts are reshaping how high-school students research and tell stories of their hometowns throughout Mississippi.
The University of Charleston, through the mist, in a scene from Our Towns. (HBO)
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  • Civic Life

The Past, the Future, the Present: Updates from Coast to Coast

  • James Fallows
  • January 28, 2022
A Fellow named, college services goes big, and scenes from a Day of Enlightened Living—here are three updates on stories we've been following on this site over the years.
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  • Education

History Come Alive – and Livestreamed!

  • Ben Speggen
  • May 7, 2021
Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration in Columbus, Mississippi now available on YouTube.
Man in red shirt talking
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

‘One Flat Tire Away’: Community Colleges Deserve the Spotlight

  • James Fallows
  • May 5, 2021
Two members of the Biden family, one a president with an "American Families Plan" and the other a First Lady known as "Dr. B" to her community college students, make the case for these schools as engines of opportunity.
People in a line singing outside
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  • Education

‘The world you can change is the world you can reach out and touch’: How history is shaping the future of Columbus, Mississippi

  • Chuck Yarborough
  • April 7, 2021
Through research, partnerships, and performance, students are giving a voice to history’s ignored chapters to tell the fuller story of their town.
The campus of Dodge City Community College, in western Kansas (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

The Choices Facing Community Colleges

  • James Fallows
  • August 9, 2019
Decisions critical to the future of these institutions so crucial to this economic and political moment
The Mississippi state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, where Larrison Campbell grew up—and where she returned. (Nagel Photography via Shutterstock)
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  • Economic Development

The American Sense of Place

  • James Fallows
  • July 12, 2019
An update: Reactions from readers and significant local-renewal developments
The new headquarters of the Communiversity, in the Golden Triangle of Mississippi, shortly before its opening (Courtesy of East Mississippi Community College)
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  • Economic Development

How a ‘Communiversity’ Works

  • James Fallows
  • May 30, 2019
Real collaboration in Mississippi
David Halberstam works at his office in New York City on May 14, 1993 (Mark Lennihan / AP)
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  • Economic Development

What David Halberstam Learned in Mississippi

  • James Fallows
  • May 18, 2019
A Journalistic Icon's First Lessons
Seniors at the Mississippi School of Mathematics and Science are shown on "senior reveal day" this month. They wore white lab coats, and then pulled them off to reveal shirts of the colleges they will be attending. (Courtesy of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science)
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  • Education

Can Schools ‘Teach Students to Think’?

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 16, 2019
A reader's response
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
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  • Education

How to Teach Students to Think

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 13, 2019
Students getting a 'first chance' at MSMS
Birney Imes III, who stepped down last year as publisher of The Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, Mississippi, with his son, Peter, the current publisher (Luisa Porter / The Commercial Dispatch)
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  • Local Journalism

The Last Family-Owned Daily in Mississippi

  • James Fallows
  • May 10, 2019
How one local paper survives

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