State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds references in a recent column the North Mississippi Media Alliance, a consortium of newspaper, broadcast and outdoor media firms which have donated space and airtime to battle the state’s embarrassing school dropout rate.
Robert “Bob” Gordon, a former newspaper editor and reporter who documented the South’s turbulent struggle for civil rights, has died. He was 69. Gordon died Saturday from heart complications, according to the AP and The Clarion-Ledger, where he served as managing editor in the 1980s. He began his career at the State-Times in Jackson after graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1960. He joined UPI in Atlanta in 1961.
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