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Historically, both newspapers, The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, were openly and unashamedly racist, supporting white supremacy. In 1890, after Mississippi Democrats adopted a new state constitution designed to disenfranchise black voters by making voter registration and voting more difficult, The Clarion-Ledger applauded the move, stating:
The hotel opened its doors on May 1, 1922. The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson's newspaper, dedicated two pages of its April 30th Sunday edition to the opening of the five-story hotel, which was described the first fire-proof building in the state of Mississippi. [2] The hotel opened with 124 rooms, all boasting an electric fan. [3]
Editor's note:This is the latest edition of Curious Mississippi, a service to the readers of the Clarion Ledger. Other questions answered by Curious Mississippi have surrounded potholes, UMMC ...
Last year, Clarion Ledger staffers told you about all sorts of new business developments in and around the Jackson area, including a proposed $150 million movie studio that could change Jackson ...
The one-time flagship library of the Jackson-Hinds Library System, the Eudora Welty Library on State Street in Jackson, is seen Tuesday, May 28, 2024. It is scheduled to be demolished.
The Clarion-Ledger has released its annual Dandy Dozen, a collection of Mississippi's top high school boys basketball players heading into the 2023-24 season. The Dandy Dozen is the newspaper's ...
Jerry W. Mitchell (born February 23, 1959) [1] is an American investigative reporter formerly with The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi.He convinced authorities to reopen many cold murder cases from the civil rights era, his investigations providing the basis for prosecutions, prompting one colleague to call him "the South's Simon Wiesenthal". [2]
March 25, 2023/Clarion Ledger file photo — KeUntey Ousley of Rolling Fork, Miss., tries to salvage what he can from his mother's boyfriend's vehicle Saturday, March 25, 2023, after a tornado ...