Tougaloo News

H.T. Drake of Jackson brandished a familiar list of complaints during Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr.'s Ward 2 community meeting Tuesday night.

Mitchell: Funding aside, historically black universities lose ground Until 1962, state taxes paid by black Mississippians supported public universities to which they were denied admission based on their race.

The freshman class of Tougaloo College recently launched a service project to collect kitchen items for Esther Davis, the 87-year-old Scott County resident, around whom the community rallied to build her a new home.

The Dark Zone Haunted House, 7-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, $6 , behind Rogers-Dabbs Chevrolet used car lot off U.S. 80, Brandon ; 825-2094. Premier Costumed Historic Halloween on the Canton Courthouse Square, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for shopping with merchants and citizens invited to assume the persona of a favorite historic character, 4-7 p.m.

TOUGALOO, Miss. - A panel discussion of President Obama's first year in office will be held Nov.

Former Jackson radio icon John Friskillo was beaten in a home invasion robbery and died three months later of injuries he received in the attack.

Kevin Powell will deliver the keynote address at the Tougaloo College Honors Program Annual Convocation on Oct.

"Shanna and Kiara were best friends. They did everything together," says Miracle Malone, Shanna's cousin, at a memorial service for the girls Friday.

It was an emotional day Friday at Tougaloo College, as classmates, faculty, and friends remembered two students killed in a wreck.

Kiara Taylor and Shanna Whitt were best friends. The Greenville natives cheered together, graduated from high school together, and enrolled at Tougaloo College together.

Tougaloo College students and faculty are mourning the loss of 2 freshmen cheerleaders killed in a head-on collision.

Two Tougaloo College female students are dead and two others have been hospitalized as a result of a two-vehicle wreck this afternoon on North State Street near College Drive in Jackson.

Jackson police said two people were killed Friday in a wreck near Tougaloo College.

Controversy has followed a state commission's decision to appoint Tougaloo College as the site for the state's new National Civil Rights Museum.

Tougaloo College will host a forum next week on health care reform and its implications for residents of Mississippi.

A Tougaloo College graduate is this year's recipient of the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship, valued at $30,000 a year toward training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Tougaloo College will host a forum next week on health care reform and its implications for residents of Mississippi.

A Tougaloo College graduate is this year's recipient of the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship, valued at $30,000 a year toward training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Tougaloo College President Beverly Wade Hogan has been appointed to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.

AN ENORMOUS ROMARE BEARDEN fabric collage commands the living room wall of the Tougaloo College president's home.