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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
From the Minutes Til Midnight Department mississippitoday.org/2026/04/15/t...
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Federal and state tax deadlines pushed back for Mississippians due to winter storm - Mississippi Today
The new deadline applies statewide for state and federal income and business taxes.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Along with telling hard truth, hope is part of the work then and now. faithandleadership.com/new-document...
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A new documentary focuses on a Civil Rights era journalist and the truth he helped share
Bill Minor’s reporting was important to the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the nation. His vocation was informed and sustained by his faith, a documentarian writes.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
John Mark Pitner’s wry story captures a serious truth about 1970 school integration which has continuing impact. The initial success of public school integration varied town to town, hinging on how key local leaders framed the importance of making it work admissionsprojects.com/2026/03/30/d...
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Don’t Torpedo It, He Told My Daddy – Admissions
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Press Mississippi on Mail-In Ballot Rules
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Colbert interview that CBS preemptively blocked before the FCC could shut it down has already crossed 1.5 million views on YouTube.
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The Late-Night TV Interview Trump’s FCC Goon Doesn't Want You to See
CBS preemptively blocked Stephen Colbert’s interview before the FCC could shut it down.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Spread the word that Eyes on Mississippi is available nationally via pbs.org The resonance with today hits hard www.pbs.org/show/eyes-on...
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Eyes on Mississippi
In the 1960s, Mississippi was a civil rights hot spot. Bill Minor reported on it with blunt honesty.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
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Opinion | These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You thought your Monday was a lot?
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Love and support to Congregation Beth Israel here in Jackson today and always
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Airing again 2 pm CST Sunday on Mississippi Public Broadcasting
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
7:30 CST tonight on MPB. Other times: 12-5 at 2 am, 12-7 at 2 pm & 12-17 at 4 pm mississippitoday.org/2025/12/04/b...
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Documentary on legendary Mississippi civil rights journalist Bill Minor to make television debut - Mississippi Today
A portrait of Minor and his dispatches from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, the film offers viewers a trenchant view of how journalism and race relations intersect.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reserve your seat for 6 pm Tuesday Dec. 2 at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting auditorium for an early screening of Eyes on Mississippi, tracking the state’s civil rights timeline through the experience of journalist Bill Minor. Broadcast 7:30 Thursday Dec. 4 on MPB
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Honored to work with Beatrice Alexander’s family to tell how she and 387 others in Holmes County Mississippi ended stalled school integration in the South through their 1969 Supreme Court win
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Mannerly ask & wit at the Texaco in Louisville, Mississippi today
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Democrats are putting money into solidly red Mississippi. Here’s why.
The DNC is investing in low-profile state races there as the South is on track to wield more power in future elections. Will it work?
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Golden Triangle see you 6 pm Thursday at the W to talk memory, revising our truths, Mississippi and @johntedge.bsky.social new memoir House of Smoke @friendlycitybooks
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 26/09/2025
‘A good education’ excuse was used to justify avoiding integration Column: My parents were “good people” and respected “all” people. But not accepting that a teacher was capable of providing a “good education” to me or my brother because that teacher was Black was racism. It still is.
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‘A good education’ excuse was used to justify avoiding integration
Column: My parents were “good people” and respected “all” people. But not accepting that a teacher was capable of providing a “good education” to me or my brother because that teacher was Black was racism. It still is.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Join us at History Is Lunch 12 pm Wednesday Oct. 1 at the Two Museums. Rita Watts Boone & I will talk admissionsprojects.com
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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It’s not just Trump. Red states are cracking down on their own blue cities.
In Mississippi, GOP lawmakers expanded the reach of the Capitol Police in Jackson and created a separate judicial system there.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The shorthand of that white talk about a “good education” New story by @jalvis2.bsky.social admissionsprojects.com/2025/09/04/w...
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We’ve Come a Long Way. Haven’t We?  – Admissions
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Nothing more delightful than media dutifully facilitating a Haley Barbour rehabilitation tour. Read the rest of the story here, by Ellen Ann Fentress, about his #HurricaneKatrina games: www.mississippifreepress.org/before-missi...
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From Haley Barbour’s $570M Port Scheme to Mississippi's TANF Scandal
Then-Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million away from post-Katrina housing assistance into a port, which did not deliver on the “economic development” promised.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
His morale-boosting talk, sure, but also his walk: diverting $570 million in needed housing $ for a touted job-rich port project netting only 1 job per $2.2 million @ashtonpittman.bsky.social www.mississippifreepress.org/haley-barbours-post-katrina-leadership-remembered-fondly-was-controversial/
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Haley Barbour’s Post-Katrina Leadership, Remembered Fondly, Was Controversial
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s leadership after Hurricane Katrina was often controversial despite fond recollections.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
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The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Saturday’s the Possumtown Book Fest in Columbus. This lineup! In conversation at 11:15 with Jason McCall, Jaz Brisack, Robert Fieseler & Adam Gussow about their powerful, deeply felt new books. Friendly City Books & Emily Liner are Mississippi powerhouses
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
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A Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Inculcated into acquiescent ladyhood which backfired” Works for me. Thanks @southrevbooks.bsky.social and Katharine Armbrester southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/08/t...
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Performative “Southern Ladyhood” in “The Steps We Take”
An interview with journalist and author Ellen Ann Fentress.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Her eyes, my ambition Thank you @salvationsouth.com & @chuckreece.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Gates accuses Musk of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ with DOGE cuts
The two billionaires have clashed since 2022 over their divergent approaches to philanthropy.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town. The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of hosting a screening. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-r...
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‘Sinners’ Is Set in Clarksdale, Where There’s No Theater. Locals Are Asking for a Screening.
The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of bringing director Ryan Coogler and his team to the community that helped inspire the hit film.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Absentee voting in the April 22 runoff for mayor and city council in Jackson takes place at City Hall, not the courthouse. Expect a little wait if the line is as it was when I voted today
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Mississippi Humanities Council has been the reason scores of events, projects & festivals happen around the state www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...
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Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’ (Gift Article)
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Mark your calendar for Tuesday June 3 to celebrate Lauren Rhoades’s wondrous memoir. We make it to adulthood from a perch inside Lauren’s head & heart. She’s bat-mitzvahed & confirmed Catholic on her 90s suburban ride, engaging, heartbreaking, infuriating & wry. Pre-orders open!
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The audiobook for The Steps We Take is out. Award-nominated Lee Ann Howlett narrates. How cool is it that she previously narrated Little Women and Heidi, a pretty ultimate girl reader two-fer. Spread the word on The Steps We Take on audio @upmississippi.bsky.social
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Oh and, perhaps, Anita Lee at the Sun-Herald and her stellar coverage of his scheme as governor to divert low-income Katrina housing funds into a port. Her work is linked in this stellar and rather shocking piece by Ellen Ann Fentress for MFP: www.mississippifreepress.org/before-missi...
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From Haley Barbour’s $570M Port Scheme to Mississippi's TANF Scandal
Then-Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million away from post-Katrina housing assistance into a port, which did not deliver on the “economic development” promised.
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Heather Harrison @heatherharrison.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@mississippifreepress.org: Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, says he no longer supports dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. When I asked if he still believed in abolishing the department as he called for in his 1996 book, former RNC chairman Barbour said, “not really.”
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Barbour: Restructure Education Department, Don’t Abolish It
As RNC chairman, Haley Barbour once called for the Department of Education to be abolished. Now that it’s happening, he says he’s changed his mind.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/02/2025
Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
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Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Amazon executive and newspaper owner says in letter that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’ * US politics live – latest updates Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed “hands-off” owner of the Washington Post, emailed…
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Proud Flesh by Catherine Simone Gray. A Doctor’s pronouncement, a brilliant examination of motherhood, intimate violence and reclaiming pleasure
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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White House Bars Reporter From Event Over A.P.’s Use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ (Gift Article)
The Associated Press has said it would refer to the Gulf of Mexico “by its original name while acknowledging” President Trump’s choice to rename the body of water.
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hope to see you, Mississippi Coast folks. Let’s write together at The 100 Men Hall in Bay St. Louis 10-1 this Saturday, Feb. 8
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Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@mariannbudde.bsky.social wrote the book on it
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