by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today April 18, 2023 The life and work of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being commemorated with a historical marker to be unveiled Saturday in Kilmichael, her husband’s hometown. The ceremony will be at 11 a.m. at 311 N....
By Trey Barrett Distinguishing red and green traffic lights. Determining the correct orientation of a drone from color cues and markings. Discerning color-coded topography lines on maps. These are just some ways colorblindness affects more than 350 million individuals...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today April 13, 2023 Last October, Ron Polk got his first look at the bronze statue that will be dedicated Friday at Dudy Noble Field. (Mississippi State athletics) This was back in December of 1975. Ron Polk, who was 31, had just...
By Harriet Laird Mississippi State’s College of Education has the green light from the state’s higher education board to open an innovative institute focused on support and opportunity for people with disabilities in the Magnolia State. The Mississippi Institute on...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 7, 2023 A spokesperson for U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, said is he “extremely disappointed” with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s effort to block the nomination of Scott...
By: Aspen Harris Mississippi State’s Department of Physics and Astronomy again is hosting its annual Physics Summer Camp for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, for those age 14 and older. The free, residential camp will be held June 5-9 on the Starkville...
