HIV, Minus: Baby Born With AIDS Virus ‘Cured,’ But Questions Remain The news that a baby in Mississippi has been “cured” of HIV is huge news. But while this might lead to better treatment, it will not be *the* cure. Read more More
Living Rooms Across America Tour: It Was Just A Dream ‘Whether it was listening to stories of resiliency from DREAM Act students or hearing an angel from South Africa share her powerful story …’ Read more More
The Living Rooms Across America Tour Hits Jackson, Mississippi Thank you to this great state for reminding me that all of us have a stake in what happens in our country. Read more More
Powerful Storm Devastates Midwest, Killing 8 Harrisburg, Illinois, was among the hardest hit. At least six have died from tornado damage several football fields wide. 250 to 300 houses and 25 businesses were damaged or destroyed. Read more More
Personhood Amendment Fails in Mississippi, Progressives Score Wins Elsewhere Mississippi’s ballot initiative that would have amended the state’s constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person failed on Tuesday. So what does that mean for the state and the country? And what other ballot measures passed on Tuesday? Read more More
Who Deserves to Die and Who Deserves to Rot in Prison? The two separate cases of death row inmate Duane Edward Buck and alleged killer Deryl Dedmon don’t have anything to do with one another, superficially. But both cases this week have throw the spotlight upon the death penalty for vastly different reasons. Read more More
You Just Murdered a Priest, What Are You Going to Do Next? I’m Going to Disney World! A handyman with a checkered criminal past on the sex offender registry has been arrested in connection to the murder of a Catholic priest. Jeremy Manieri, 31, was one of the last people to see Rev. Edward Everitt alive. Read more More