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Mississippi Native: T. Malik Ross
"I no longer see the Delta as something to outgrow, but as an inheritance to build from."
Nov 19
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Mississippi Expat: Roddy Schrock
"I miss the stillness, a feeling like you are outside of time."
Nov 12
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Mississippi Transplant: Mark Burr
"For younger people to see someone from a different racial background, sexual orientation, or spirituality is important here, because Mississippi’s…
Nov 5
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October 2025
Chronicles from Parchman #16: How Many Exonerees Does It Take to Make Mississippi See?
From his vantage point on Mississippi's death row, writer L. Patri has seen friends executed and exonerated. These seven exonerees remind us that our…
Oct 31
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Mississippi Native: Peyton Smith
"My people are here. I love it here. I’m skeptical any grass would actually be greener."
Oct 29
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Mississippi Expat: Alva Leigh
"When you are thousands of miles from home and you try to explain a debutante ball or a Southern Baptist altar call to a foreigner, you are as shocked…
Oct 22
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Mississippi Sideboard #14: The Grounds and the Fury
The fluffiest angel food cake and the pettiest small town gossip. Jesse Yancy breaks down the culinary drama of dinners on the grounds.
Oct 20
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Mississippi Native: Erin Austen Abbott
"I even moved to Los Angeles for about a year and a half after buying my house in Water Valley to be sure small town living was for me. I loved living…
Oct 15
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Book Club: BODOCK with Robert Busby
Get ready for our next author talk on October 21 with Mississippi author Robert Busby
Oct 13
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CHUCK: Part V: Hope and Humor with Five Days Left
"It’s a trying situation, even for people you don’t get along with. Because they’re in line, too. If the state could line us all up and get us back to…
Oct 10
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CHUCK: Part IV, Pro Se Filing: Can You Hear Me Now?
"I begged my lawyer at the time to follow up on some of the facts of my case. He wouldn’t do it. He refused to do it. I begged him and others in his…
Oct 9
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CHUCK: Part III, What Crime Scene?
"If the prosecutors and investigators are fabricating evidence and putting it together to suit their story..how can you tell who is guilty and who is…
Oct 8
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