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...real. Walk into a Burger King or K-Mart or Ole Miss Library and you'll see blacks and whites eating, shopping and studying together. "Forty years ago when the state was first integrated, blacks had no rights," veteran journalist Curtis Wilke recently noted. "Today they politically control the Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody can get away with racist politics in the state." Indeed, who would have thought, forty years ago, that a Senator from Mississippi would be forced to go on his knees and beg for forgiveness for harboring segregationist views...
...storms, fish in ponds get swept into channels by rainfall, others are released accidentally during transport. Bighead and silver carp that were introduced to China's plateau lakes in the 1950s have cleared those waters of whole species of indigenous fish. And Asian carp, which were introduced in Mississippi Delta catfish ponds to control parasites, escaped in the early 1990s and have migrated up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to within 25 miles of Lake Michigan, threatening native fish with their voracious feeding habits...
...plot’s origins date back 40 years to when a group from MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon (Dekes) fraternity planted explosive cords, developed for use by demolition experts in WWII, in hopes of blasting the school’s initials into the sod before the Harvard-Yale game that year. The grounds crew discovered the explosives and school officials expelled the students involved soon after...
Gentry High School in Indianola, Miss. is not a safety school for Eleanor G. Brennan ’02-’03. If she’s lucky, she’ll end up teaching there or another public high school in the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans or New Mexico, among other places, through Teach For America (TFA), a non-profit organization that places recent grads in teaching positions in some of the country’s most underachieving, understaffed schools. Last year, TFA saw its applicant pool triple from the usual 5,000 to a whopping...
...students they would potentially be teaching. Those accepted are usually assigned to one of their top choices, ranked out of 18 possible locations, either in the inner-city (including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York City) or in a rural location (including New Mexico/Navajo Nation, Mississippi Delta, and South Louisiana...