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Could Jefferson Davis, J.Z. George follow Bilbo to storage?
For the primary time in additional than 68 years, the statue of Theodore Bilbo won’t be within the Mississippi Capitol when the Legislature convenes its 2023 session on Jan. 3.
The bronze statue of the diminutive demagogue who ran for and received two elections for governor and three for U.S. senator by spewing racial rhetoric and opposing anti-lynching legal guidelines has been banished from the Mississippi Capitol.
Some consider the monuments of two different racist figures from Mississippi’s previous must be the subsequent to be eliminated — however not from the state Capitol, however from the U.S. Capitol.
Sen. Derrick Simmons, D-Greenville, the Mississippi Senate minority chief, has requested laws to be drafted that he’ll writer within the upcoming 2023 session to take away the statues of Jefferson Davis and James Zachariah George from the U.S. Capitol. Davis, after all, was president of the Confederacy. The lesser recognized George was one of many architects of Mississippi’s 1890 Structure that was a blueprint for different Southern states to comply with on learn how to discriminate in opposition to African Individuals and forestall them from voting.
Whereas George and Davis symbolize Mississippi within the U.S. Capitol, curiously neither are native Mississippians. They have been chosen by the Mississippi Legislature in 1924 to symbolize the state within the nation’s Capitol.
Every state is allowed to pick out two monuments to be displayed within the U.S. Capitol. Mississippi is the one state the place each of its statues, supposedly representing its individuals and its beliefs, are so immediately linked to a racist previous and the Confederacy.
The mothballing of the supposedly life-size bronze statue of Bilbo continues a development that Simmons hopes to proceed with the elimination of Davis and George. The development started in 2020 when the Mississippi Legislature stunned onlookers by voting to retire and change the state flag that included prominently in its design the Accomplice battle emblem.
Legislators didn’t vote to take away Bilbo, however in a way acquiesced within the mothballing. In late 2021, Home Clerk Andrew Ketchings, who was elected by Home members to supervise the day-to-day operations of the chamber, took it upon himself to quietly take away the statue from a key Home Committee room the place it has been exhibited because the early Nineteen Eighties.
“Due to every part he stood for, I feel this could have been finished years in the past,” Ketchings mentioned in February 2022. “It was well past time to do it.”
The Mississippi Legislature handed a decision in 1948 quickly after Bilbo’s demise to put a statue of him “in a outstanding place on the primary flooring of the brand new Capitol constructing.”
PHOTOS: Segregationist’s statue leaves Capitol for Two Museums’ basement
The statue was unveiled in April 1954, in accordance with newspaper accounts. Within the early Nineteen Eighties then-Gov. William Winter had the sculpture faraway from the first flooring rotunda to what was then a little-used room within the Capitol. However in more moderen years the room — 113 — has been used for Home committee conferences, together with by the Legislative Black Caucus. Members would use the outstretched arm of Bilbo as a coat rack.
Ketchings hid the statue, estimated to weigh about 2,000 kilos, in a Capitol storage room. It was not too long ago moved to storage beneath the Two Mississippi Museums. Archives and Historical past Govt Director Katie Blount mentioned not too long ago there is no such thing as a plan to exhibit the Bilbo statue.
Simmons mentioned he’s submitting laws to take away the monuments from the U.S. Capitol as a result of “we should always proceed the progress we made in 2020 once we changed the state flag by eradicating symbols that divide us.”
Federal tips give the authority to every state Legislature to find out the statues to be exhibited within the U.S. Capitol.
In 2021, an effort was made to cross federal laws to take away the 2 Mississippi monuments from the U.S. Capitol. All members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation opposed the federal laws besides 2nd District U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the state’s lone Democrat and solely African American member of Congress.
Thompson mentioned he voted for the laws as a result of “statues of those that served within the Confederacy or supported slavery or segregation mustn’t have a spot of honor within the U.S. Capitol.”
Mississippi’s Republican members of Congress mentioned they consider it must be as much as states to determine the monuments representing them within the U.S. Capitol.
Simmons mentioned he intends to present Mississippians, via their elected representatives, a possibility to vote on the elimination of the 2 statues.
Simmons mentioned his laws would reassemble the board that was put in place in 2020 to steer the hassle to pick out a brand new flag for the state and provides it the duty for choosing who would symbolize Mississippi within the U.S. Capitol.
If Simmons is profitable, maybe Bilbo would have firm from Jefferson Davis and J.Z. George within the bowels of the Two Mississippi Museums.
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Baptist North Mississippi redesignated as 'Baby-Friendly Hospital' – The Oxford Eagle
Baptist North Mississippi redesignated as ‘Baby-Friendly Hospital’
Published 2:09 pm Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Baby-Friendly USA, the accrediting body and national authority for the U.S. Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, has re-designated Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi as a “Baby-Friendly hospital.”
This designation “demonstrates Baptist North Mississippi is adhering to the highest standards of care for breastfeeding mothers and their babies.”
“Baptist North Mississippi is proud to serve as a Baby-Friendly Hospital,” said Brian Welton, CEO and administrator of Baptist North Mississippi. “We are committed to providing the support, education and resources moms need to successfully initiate breastfeeding and continue breastfeeding when they leave our care.”
Baptist North Mississippi received its initial Baby-Friendly designation in 2018. Redesignation is a two-year process and is ultimately conferred through an onsite assessment. Redesignation “classes” are defined by the year the designation expires.
“The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” a set of evidence-based practices recommended by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund for optimal infant feeding support in the first days of a newborn’s life. It serves as standards for initial designation.
Baptist North Mississippi is among more than 20,000 baby-friendly hospitals and birth centers throughout the world, with 500 located in the United States. These facilities “provide an environment that supports breastfeeding while respecting every woman’s right to make the best decision for herself and her family.”
As the accrediting body and national authority for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the United States, Baby-Friendly USA is responsible for upholding the highest standards in infant feeding care by coordinating and conducting all activities necessary to confer the prestigious Baby-Friendly designation and ensure the widespread adoption of the BFHI in the U.S.
Learn more about Baby-Friendly USA and the BFHI at www.babyfriendlyusa.org.
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Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish – The Oxford Eagle
Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish
Published 7:40 am Wednesday, May 1, 2024
By Les Ferguson
Columnist
If I’ve done the math right, it was 1983. We were oh-so-young, and so was the World Catfish Festival in Belzoni. The annual event was only six years old, and Belzoni was a tiny delta town. Current statistics show that the city has a population under 2,000. If it was more significant in 1983, it wasn’t by much.
As I said, my now wife and I were very young and with her parents. I only remember a few specifics of what the festival had to offer. Of course, an event celebrating Mississippi’s catfish industry and Belzoni’s epicenter meant plenty of catfish to eat, cooked multiple ways with all the sides and fixings.
I explicitly remember eating hushpuppies, fried onion rings, and coleslaw. I was not tempted to eat chitlins that day — I’d already tried them before, and once was enough. Despite my young age and much higher metabolism, I suspect I’m still carrying a pound or three from that day.
But the best memories of that long ago time were holding hands with my best girl as we wandered through the booths and displays of the event. I can still see her in the bright sunlight, the smile on her face, the twinkle in her eyes, and the highlights in her hair.
This past weekend, Oxford hosted its annual Double Decker Festival around the town square. Before the event, it was estimated that some 75,000 would attend — quite a difference from Belzoni in 1983.
Like many others, my still-best girl and I shuffled from booth to booth. Shuffled is a perfect description — it was so crowded that one could hardly walk. As we did that long ago day, we held hands the best we could amidst the crowd’s crush. I ate catfish and hushpuppies again. My girl bought some art.
It was a good day. It was a day of memories. It was a day of making new memories. And in a funny way, the memories of that long ago day and those created this past Saturday all run together. They tell the story of a life blessed by the presence of another.
I pray you will know, experience, and revel in good, strong, and beautiful relationships — and eat the Mississippi catfish, too!
As King Solomon says, “Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts. For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 CSB)
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Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in California, Mississippi and New York
LONG BEACH, Calif. – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Tuesday’s (April 30) drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $284 million.
There were three tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number sold in California, Mississippi, and North Carolina, lottery officials announced.
The tickets sold in Mississippi and New York are worth $1 million each.
The ticket sold in California is worth $392,160 and was sold at Eddie’s Jr. Market in the 2400 block of 4th Street in Long Beach.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 10, 18, 27, 37, 61 and the Mega number was 5.
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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