University of Mississippi

Rep. Bennie Thompson Wins Efforts to Make Medgar Evers Home National Monument 

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor March 21, 2019

Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers’ house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become a national historic landmark. The house where Medgar Evers’ was fatally shot was built in the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. Thompson has been working on the honor for Evers for over ten years. 

Education Opinion

It’s Time to Stop Marginalizing African Americans in Public Higher Education

Spencer Overton, The Joint Center for Political and Economic StudiesFebruary 21, 2019

The same states where African Americans are underrepresented in selective public colleges are also underfunding the open-access colleges that African Americans attend. According to Georgetown’s study, selective public colleges spend nearly three times more on instruction and academic support than open access colleges.