CLINTON, Mississippi, Feb. 2 -- Mississippi College issued the following news: Sixty years ago, the federal government launched a comprehensive initiative designed to break the cycle of poverty by giving preschool children from families with low income a culturally responsive program to help meet their educational needs. Studies have shown that children enrolled in the Head Start program, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty," are more likely to graduate from high school, atte  more

SENATOBIA, Mississippi, Jan. 31 -- Northwest Mississippi Community College issued the following news release: Northwest Mississippi Community College is awarding its annual Outstanding Corporation Award to Reedy Acres Foundation. The Reedy Acres Foundation will be honored at the Northwest Soiree on March 2, 2024, at the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts on the Senatobia Campus. The Reedy Acres Foundation was established in the 1990s by Brownlow "Brownie" and Dorris Crawford and Arnold Carr  more