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Rep. Charles Young Jr., D-Meridian, asks a question about a House appropriations conference committee bill at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on April 4, 2022. Young said in 2023 that the E.F. Young Jr. Hotel in Meridian, Miss., which was founded by his grandfather in the 1940s, had fallen into disrepair. The hotel was once a safe place for Black travelers during segregation. The building was demolished Monday, April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Black-owned hotel razed; was safe haven during segregation
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Tue,04/25/23-3:49PM , 117 Reads
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi hotel that gave Black travelers safe lodging during segregation and once welcomed such notables as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been torn down after falling into disrepair after years of sitting vacant.
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The Mississippi state and U.S. flags fly near the Rankin County Confederate Monument in the downtown square of Brandon, Miss., on March 3, 2023. Mississippi and Alabama closed most government offices Monday, April 24, for Confederate Memorial Day as efforts have stalled to abolish state holidays that honor the old Confederacy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Alabama and Mississippi mark Confederate Memorial Day
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Mon,04/24/23-5:23PM , 132 Reads
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama and Mississippi closed most government offices Monday for Confederate Memorial Day as efforts have stalled to abolish state holidays that honor the old Confederacy.
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No injuries after massive fire put out at Louisiana sawmill
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Mon,04/24/23-4:29PM , 156 Reads
BOGALUSA, La. (AP) — Firefighters from departments across southeast Louisiana and nearby areas of Mississippi worked for hours before extinguishing the flames from a massive fire at a sawmill on Lake Pontchartrain's north shore early Monday.
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John Georges and his wife, Dathel, pose for a portrait at The New Orleans Advocate studio in New Orleans, Thursday, May 2, 2019. The publisher of daily newspapers in New Orleans and Baton Rouge is launching a digital news service in northwest Louisiana. Georges Media Group said in a Monday, April 24, 2023, news release that it will hire 10 journalists for the Shreveport-Bossier Advocate. Dathel and John Georges, of New Orleans, founded Georges Media in 2013. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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New Orleans, Baton Rouge publisher expanding to Shreveport
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Mon,04/24/23-2:17PM , 123 Reads
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The company publishing daily newspapers in New Orleans and Baton Rouge announced Monday that it is launching a digital news service in northwest Louisiana, bringing some media competition to the region.
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