Shirley Wallace and her family ended up in Corbin, Ky. last year after Hurricane Katrina forced them to flee Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. The fact that Wallace “loves her new hometown” is a source of fascination to The Lexington Herald-Leader since the Wallaces are black and Corbin is nearly all-white, with a “fearsome reputation” and history.
And, of course, there’s the obligatory racism reference at Mississippi’s expense.
The Delta Democrat Times editorializes that rumors and/or efforts toward relocating the Federal Courthouse in Greenville to another Delta town — namely Clarksdale — are detrimental to the entire region. It also admonishes an opinion column in “another Delta newspaper” on the subject.
John L. Pitts has been named sports editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo. He succeeds Gene Phelps, who led the sports desk for two decades and becomes a senior writer at the Journal.
Pitts, 49, was most recently on staff at the Times Daily in Florence, AL. He is a former assistant sports editor at the Tupelo paper.
Turns out there’s more fruitbasket turnover in Tupelo. Longtime sports writer Mark Beason is leaving the paper to take a job with Mississippi Outdoors.
An NBC News special will feature Jackson’s Lanier High School and delve into the oft-debated issue of race relations in the Capital City. NBC stalwart Tom Brokaw hosts the program, airing Sunday night at 6. The special will feature an interview with Clarion-Ledger executive editor Ronnie Agnew, the first African-American to hold the post at the paper.
Here’s a review that takes an erroneous turn after the New York Times correspondent proclaims Mississippi’s Secretary of State is a black woman.
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