Alcorn State University News

And when Theron, 1, and Tristan, 3, take a trip to Frazier Primary School, they are some of the campus' favorite visitors.

So on Monday, when Hopson was announced as the 18th football coach at historically black Alcorn State University - and according to school officials the first white head football coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference - he was ready.

From making the first touchdown in the powder-puff football game to singing in the Mississippi Girls Honor Choir, Debra Whitley has done it all.

When The Dart landed on College Street, it found 2-year-old Gabbie Brooks playing in her yard with her grandfather, Ronnie Brooks Sr.

Eric teaches fourth grade at McLaurin Elementary School, and Tracy is employed by Open Air MRI.

A good fit for the leader of Alcorn State University is different than a good fit for Mississippi University for Women, and neither of those would be the same good fit for Jackson State University.

After a year away, Ole Miss hopes to find out today that it is headed back to the NCAA regionals.

A press release from the university says Brown will also detail the search process, which included "weeks of false speculations and inaccurate rumors." The date for the announcement was made three weeks ago and held confidential, because campus management was unable to complete data analysis before graduation, according to the press release.

A A A A Time has marched past the civil rights era when brave, black leaders picketed and protested for the sake of us all, for the sake of the African American race and its future.

If baseball is a game of inches, you could say Oak Grove was an inch or maybe two better than... It's going to take more than closing a couple hundred rural post offices to fix what's wrong with... College Board member Alan Perry studies the new college tuition increases at the state's eight public universities as Institutions for Higher Learning ... (more)

I was born in Bentonia in Yazoo County and am married and have two children. After graduating from Bentonia High School in 1976, I attended Alcorn State University and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in business administration in May of 1979.

In this April 9, 2012 image released by ABC, Donald Driver and his partner Peta Murgatroyd perform on the celebrity dance competition series, "Dancing with the Stars," in Los Angeles.

But before reaching the upper echelon of parish teaching awards, she was also voted by the faculty as the top teacher at Vidalia Junior High.