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Cousins earn national honor for heroic river rescue
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, Journal-Courier
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Carnegie Heroes James W. Whitley II (second from left) and Robert J. Whitley (second from right) are recognized Wednesday during an awards ceremony. Also on hand for the presentation were Illinois Conservation Police Capt. John Williamson (from left), Illinois Conservation Police Officer Mike Blazinic and Illinois Conservation Police Sgt. Eric Myers. The Whitleys were recognized for their heroism in helping save the lives of five people who were thrown into the Mississippi River during a boating accident.Robin Henehan
HULL Two Missouri men who were instrumental in rescuing several people after a 2019 accident on the Mississippi River near Hull have received one of the highest awards for civilian heroism.
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Mississippi Authors Ward, Laymon are March 9 University Forum Online Presenters
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 11:01am | By: David Tisdale
Two acclaimed Mississippi writers who are keeping the state’s tradition of literary excellence vibrant will be the guest presenters for the next University of Southern Mississippi (USM) University Forum Online, set for Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Jesmyn Ward and Kiese Laymon will engage each other and their audience in a wide-ranging conversation about writing, race, and Mississippi in an event co-sponsored by the USM Honors College and the USM McNair Scholars Program, along with generous support
Don t show me this message again✕ Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose second novel is more than a match for his first (AFP/Getty)
n 2015, a professor at the University of Southern California published his first novel, called
The Sympathizer. The story was a cerebral work of historical fiction and political satire cleverly infiltrated with cultural criticism. Although cloaked as a thriller, it didn’t fit neatly into that popular genre and could have slipped by unnoticed as a good spy novel.
Except that the author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, was too startlingly brilliant to ignore.
The Sympathizer flushed colour back into those iconic photos of the fall of Saigon, and recast the worn lessons of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a communist agent hiding in the United States. An instant classic, the novel aggressively engaged with the nation s mythology and demonstrated Nguyen s extraordinarily intellectual dramatic range.