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Noah Harris announced as Harvard’s first Black student body president

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Oscar O'Neal

Teacher accused of inappropriate relationship sought after her teen student disappears

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Mississippi city mourns 2 officers slain in weekend shooting

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Mississippi mayoral election case ends in mistrial

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A jury trial over a lawsuit contesting the results of a Mississippi mayoral election has ended in a mistrial and left incumbent Johnny DuPree, who was the 2011 Democratic nominee for governor, in office for now…
/ August 1, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Can a black man become Mississippi governor?

OPINION – There is no reason to believe what Obama did in 2008 can’t be replicated at the state-level for a man like Johnny DuPree, who has a message worth listening to…
/ September 2, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Black Dem faces tough race for Miss. governor

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – DuPree, the mayor of Mississippi’s third-largest city, Hattiesburg, said he’s not daunted because he has usually been outspent in campaigns…
/ August 26, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Why is Mississippi so red when it's so black?

OPINION – Oddly, the blackest, poorest and most federally-dependent state in America is also the most conservative state, according to a Gallup poll taken earlier this year…
/ August 25, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Miss: 1st black modern major-party nominee for gov

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Johnny DuPree, 57, won a Democratic primary runoff and advances to the Nov. 8 general election to face Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, 56, of Brandon…
/ August 24, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Southern Miss player paralyzed by shooting

(AP) Linebacker Martez Smith is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot outside a nightclub over the weekend along with two of his teammates…
/ November 16, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

First African-American naval aviator’s exhibit at Hattiesburg museum

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Jesse L. Brown, the first black naval aviator, and the first to die serving his country, was a pioneer in the civil rights movement…
/ February 5, 2010