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After that, you can take the cable car back toward the Mississippi River and transfer to the St. Charles Avenue line south to the Ogden Museum, home of the largest collection of Southern-themed art in the U.S. (It's a dense city; from downtown, it won't take more than 10 minutes to get there.) The museum's five floors narrate Southern history through paintings and photography. A highlight is a painting called Trinity,which depicts Jesus flanked by two other radiant "gods" of the South, Elvis Presley and Robert...
...league launched the program in New Orleans because of Louisiana's love affair with the game. It held the training sessions in a tough neighborhood near the Crescent City Connection, a Mississippi River bridge, because of the area's high number of single-parent households. Moms in this part of town don't hesitate to do what traditionalists might see as a dad's job. The new coaches quickly won their players' respect. "They're tough and not afraid to holler at you," said Ryan Aaron, 15. "They get down and dirty just like...
...press releases.” Fact-checking lectures from the people who compared Kinsey to a Nazi? I don’t think so. The CWA does have one valid point: Abstinence is indeed the only 100 percent effective method of safe sex. They neglected to mention, however, that Mississippi and Texas, two states that overwhelmingly supported Bush and his sexually repressive agenda, have two of the top-five highest teen pregnancy rates in the country, according to careful research done by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education...
...Summer was that project. Our parents’ generation abandoned their jobs and the glories of college life to bring a little ray of hope to the darkest spot in the struggle for civil rights. It was exactly the wrong place to go. Unlike Tennessee or parts of Georgia, Mississippi didn’t have a history of compromise on racial issues. Mississippians who opposed civil rights were more than willing to use violence, and state authorities were curiously unable to apprehend the criminals who harassed and even killed civil rights workers...
...state where only 5 percent of voting age blacks were registered, and this 5 percent faced extreme harassment when they sought to exercise their right. By focusing on one of the most bigoted and brutal states in America, student activists shocked the country into paying attention. They used Mississippi to illustrate the worst that racism was capable of. What our parents did in Mississippi, we can do in the suburbs and rural areas where Wal-Mart is rapidly expanding its hold...