5 Star Stories Black History: The story behind Rust College
5 Star Stories Black History: Rust College honors the past, looks to the future By Kym Clark | March 2, 2021 at 8:54 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 10:41 PM
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (WMC) - This 5 Star Story celebrating Black History shines a light on the oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) associated with the United Methodist Church, and the second oldest private college in Mississippi.
We’re talking Rust College, where last summer, the school’s 12th president and the first woman was installed to lead the institution into the future.
The college is nestled in the idyllic Marshall County seat of Holly Springs, Mississippi which is 55 miles south of Memphis. It was founded in1866 by the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, just one year after slavery was abolished.
Bluesology: Ghalia Volt s One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more
Mike Greenblatt s monthly Bluesology column inspects the recent notes of Ghalia Volt s One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more.
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Any new
Mick Kolassa album is cause for celebration. This longtime champion of the blues helped The Blues Foundation become a guiding force in this music and, indeed, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of
If You Can’t Be Good, Be Good At It (on his own Endless Blues Records) helps support that effort. And what an album! Give Jeff Jensen some credit here. The leader of his own band has settled into a groove with Kolassa over the latter’s last few album and here his guitar shrieks split the black night like lightning. Whether it’s Howling Wolf (“Who’s Been Talking”) or even James Taylor (“Lo And Behold”), the Kolassa/Jensen production gives the attention-to-detail highs priority while not sacrificing the big bass bottom. Kolassa’s voice has neve
The Gainesville City School Board approved a new calendar for the upcoming school year, and voted to memorialize a Gainesville educator by naming the first floor of a new building after her. The board also signed their Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest forms, as they do each January, approved a legislation amendment to provide more clarity on their operations, and got the latest on a recent Chromebook purchase.
School board adopts non-traditional calendar for 21- 22
Next year s calendar will look strikingly similar to this year s, the board decided in a unanimous vote. We have to be very realistic about the fact that COVID will not be entirely gone, so what we would like to do is instead of having a traditional calendar, as we ve had in years past, is have a calendar with similarities to this year.