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        I recently received a press release regarding an upcoming 43rd Annual Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service and Conference and Caravan for Justice. About the event:
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        June 5, 2007 -
        
  
        The Emerging Democratic Majority website points to our recent post on the rapidly-changing demographics of the South -- namely, that half of Southern K-12 pupils are now students of color, driven 
  
      
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 4, 2007 -
        
  
        Today's Democracy Now! radio show features an interview with Vanity Fair reporter David Rose, who has a new book o
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        June 4, 2007 -
        
  
        Hurricane Katrina is still killing people almost two years after it struck.		Or is it?		There's some disagreement in the medical community -- though the closer one gets to local front-line caregivers, the stronger the consensus becomes that the storm continues to claim the lives of those who survived the immediate destruction.	
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        June 1, 2007 -
        
  
        Following our coverage in Salon last week about the slow pace of recovery in post-Katrina Mississippi -- "slower than molasses in winter," one resident told us -- Reuters has a piece on small towns struggling to rebuild in th
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        June 1, 2007 -
        
  
        Wal-Mart's shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas today may have featured JLo singing her heart out, but the overall tone was subdued and cautious,