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Mississippi native Eddie Glaude bears witness
Mississippi native Eddie Glaude, one of many world’s main thinkers and academics on race, retains bearing witness about America’s ugly, unacknowledged historical past and the way it will form our future.
For years, Glaude, a school chief at Princeton College, has channeled his upbringing and his educational research to encourage Individuals to suppose deeply about the place the nation has been and the place it’s headed.
And this weekend, Glaude will come dwelling to do extra of it when he headlines the Mississippi E book Pageant in Jackson. His most up-to-date guide “Start Once more” analyzes the previous, current and way forward for America by way of the writings and lifetime of James Baldwin.
This can be Glaude’s third journey dwelling this calendar yr. In Might, he gave a stirring graduation deal with at Rust Faculty, the traditionally Black establishment in Holly Springs. A pair weeks earlier, he was in Jackson to ship a robust Medgar Wiley Evers lecture on the Two Mississippi Museums that attendees mentioned was extra akin to a sermon than a speech.
Relating a number of Baldwin writings, a central theme of Glaude’s April lecture was that “the American concept is in bother.”
“Historical past issues as a result of we supply it inside us. And Mississippi is soaked in historical past,” Glaude mentioned. “And as James Baldwin wrote, ‘It’s in nice ache and terror one which one begins to evaluate that historical past, which is positioned one the place one is and shaped one’s perspective, as a result of one enters into battle with that historic creation oneself.’”
Being largely unwilling to acknowledge our true previous, Glaude says, is why so many Individuals really feel so unsure about our future.
“We’re trapped in a historical past we refuse to know however carry inside us,” Glaude mentioned. “And Baldwin says that is the foundation of our unadmitted sorrow. The terrors and panic we expertise have every part to do with the hole between who we think about ourselves to be and who, deep down, we actually are. The truth that we evade that query locks us right into a form of perpetual adolescence.”
Glaude continued: “I come from a practice that provides a narrative of the nation that forces it to confront its ugliness, to actually urge the nation to develop the hell up. Now we have to reside near the bottom if we’re gonna change. Now we have to know the facility of on a regular basis abnormal individuals, to think about a greater future. Now we have to inform ourselves the reality so as to launch us into a special manner of being on the planet. Now we have to inform the reality to Gov. Tate Reeves, inform the reality to Joe Biden. So long as we view racial equality as a philanthropic enterprise, so long as we view racial justice as an act of charity, we’re in bother nonetheless.”
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$15.5 million project underway to upgrade Central Mississippi’s interstate lighting system
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The number of interstate lights that are out due to copper wire theft in the Jackson metro has been the subject of two 3 On Your Side investigations.
[READ: Driving in the Dark: While other states crack down on copper wire theft, MS continues brainstorming strategies]
[READ: Still Driving in the Dark: Improvements to Mississippi’s interstate lighting system still months away]
Wednesday, a Mississippi Department of Transportation official provided an update on MDOT’s efforts to light up our interstates.
In January, we told you that MDOT had awarded a contract to Garver Engineering, a firm that’s currently assessing and evaluating Central Mississippi’s interstate lighting system.
Part of the firm’s project includes putting nearly $8,000,000 toward items that will make it harder for thieves to steal copper wire.
“This is a permanent repair, so it’s not a Band-Aid or anything like that,” MDOT Public Information Officer Michael Flood said.
Flood says MDOT’s leadership decided years ago that it would be a waste of taxpayer dollars to continuously repair lights that had been stripped of their copper wire because it would likely only be a matter of time before thieves struck again.
But now, Flood says he’s happy to report that progress is being made.
“In recent years, we haven’t had that good of an update. We have kind of been at a loss, so it’s nice to be at this point where we are moving forward,” he said. “We do have a contract in place to not only upgrade to LED lights but also have preventative measures in place to prevent copper theft and keep our interstates lit up. “
Some of those preventative measures include a monitoring system where MDOT is alerted if a segment of lights goes out, allowing crews to respond immediately.
Part of the project with Garver Engineering also includes doing away with bridge mounts and restricting access to wires by burying conduits underground and not having any junction boxes that are accessible from the surface level.
“We have a plan in place. It’s going to be a process. We just ask everyone to bear with us and give us some patience and time to allow us to make those repairs.”
The process is expected to last for a number of months.
Flood says he’s hopeful the firm will get to the design phase of the project toward the end of the year and then the implementation phase would follow shortly afterwards.
When asked why a project like this was not started years ago, Flood said processes like this take a lot of time – especially when the Federal Highway Administration has to be involved.
In the meantime, MDOT has been making repairs to interstate lights that were out due to the need for routine maintenance – not copper wire theft.
That includes the lights along I-55 at Meadowbrook Road and Eastover Drive, which are now working again.
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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) — An investigation is underway following the discovery of a woman’s body in the yard of an abandoned home in Columbus, Mississippi.
Bryan Moore, the public information officer for the Columbus Police Department, said someone found the body at approximately 10:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant later confirmed the name of the victim as Ashanti Jade Turner, 25.
The family says she lived close to the abandoned house and that someone last saw her Sunday, April 21.
The coroner said an autopsy will be performed.
Her death is being treated as a homicide, according to the coroner.
The Columbus Police Department said in a news release that Turner’s boyfriend, Damian Peterson, is a person of interest in the investigation.
Anyone with information that may help investigators is asked to call the tip line at 1-800-530-7151.
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