Columbus Archives - Our Towns

Current MSMS juniors conducting the MoreStory Monuments project this school year L-R Sean Stewart (hometown: Laurel, MS); Jaelon Carter (Philadelphia, MS); Alexis Allen (Columbus, MS); Eli Bankston (Brandon, MS); Savannah Massey (Pelahatchie, MS); Ramse Jefferson (Raymond, MS); and Aniyah Allen (Jackson, MS).

Deborah Fallows
October 28, 2023

High school students honor six African American women of the 1960s.

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K-12

Outstanding Programs in Public Education from the American South

Deborah Fallows
September 3, 2023

Lessons from Mississippi for the rest of the U.S.

Christina Zhang, student at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. Photo courtesy of Thomas Easterling.

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K-12

Real Mississippi podcasts: Having the Grace to Find a Sense of Place

Christina Zhang
May 13, 2022

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Christina Zhang explores how a church in Biloxi serves as a space to share and celebrate Asian-American culture.

A laptop and studio microphone perched on an open drawer of a dresser to make a makeshift studio in a dorm room

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K-12

Real Mississippi podcasts: You Can Go Back Home Again

Raegan Calvert
April 21, 2022

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Raegan Calvert explores the challenges and opportunities in her hometown of Wiggins, Mississippi

The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science

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Education

Real Voices from Real Mississippi

Thomas Easterling
April 8, 2022

How podcasts are reshaping how high-school students research and tell stories of their hometowns throughout Mississippi.

The University of Charleston, through the mist, in a scene from Our Towns. (HBO)

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Civic Life

The Past, the Future, the Present: Updates from Coast to Coast

James Fallows
January 28, 2022

A Fellow named, college services goes big, and scenes from a Day of Enlightened Living—here are three updates on stories we've been following on this site over the years.

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Education

History Come Alive – and Livestreamed!

Ben Speggen
May 7, 2021

Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration in Columbus, Mississippi now available on YouTube.

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Community Colleges & Technical Training

‘One Flat Tire Away’: Community Colleges Deserve the Spotlight

James Fallows
May 5, 2021

Two members of the Biden family, one a president with an "American Families Plan" and the other a First Lady known as "Dr. B" to her community college students, make the case for these schools as engines of opportunity.