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In January 2000, they gave US$100 million to the State of Mississippi to create The Barksdale Reading Institute, a joint venture with the Mississippi Department of Education and the state's public universities. His wife, Sally Barksdale, died of cancer in 2003. He has three children and five grandchildren.
Arnold William Klein (February 27, 1945 – October 22, 2015) was an American dermatologist. [2] In the infancy of the AIDS epidemic, Klein became one of the first doctors in Los Angeles to diagnose a case of Kaposi's sarcoma in a young patient. [3] He also worked closely with American pop musician Michael Jackson, diagnosing him with discoid ...
Carla Hughes. Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [2] She is serving two consecutive sentences of life without ...
The City of Jackson has settled Robinson's wrongful death lawsuit filed by Wade for $17,786.25. Robinson, who is also Black, was hospitalized later that night and died two days later. He died of a ...
Graves: 5 years in prison. James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon. At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.
Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, $5, $4 children 3-18; 1550 Lakeland Drive, Jackson; (601) 432-4500 or www.msagmuseum.org Mississippi Museum of Art at 380 S. Lamar Street, Jackson ...
Chokwe Lumumba. Chokwe Lumumba ( / ˈʃoʊ.kweɪ.lʌˈmuːm.bɑː /; August 2, 1947 – February 25, 2014) was an American attorney, activist, and politician, who was affiliated with the black separatist organization Republic of New Afrika and served as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi.
Andrew Jackson Higgins (28 August 1886 – 1 August 1952) was an American businessman and boatbuilder who founded Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, or LCVPs) during World War II.