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Ridgeland, Mississippi · Ridgeland“Bought sense is better than borrowed sense” lives in my memory, rent-free. I’ve always cringed at it because, at every stage of life, some lessons have been costly to learn. At the Alluvial Collective, we show up to the office, on the screen, or in a community with one overarching challenge: to create or deepen the connections that will support collective thriving. That is our “For what.” We get to show up with wisdom purchased over our organ…See the Story
Look for the "why" when engaging in disagreement
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Pulitzer Prize · RidgelandApril 19, 1977 Alex Haley was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for “Roots,” which was also adapted for television. Network executives worried that the depiction of the brutality of the slave experience might scare away viewers. Instead, 130 Americans watched the epic miniseries, which meant that 85% of U.S. households watched the program. The miniseries received 36 Emmy nominations and won nine. In 2016, the History Channel, Lifetime and A&E…See the Story
On this day in 1977
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandLawmakers and advocates regularly refer to Mississippians without health insurance who are in the “coverage gap.” But what is the coverage gap, why does it exist and how does it relate to Medicaid expansion? What is Medicaid? Medicaid is a federal-state program that provides health coverage to millions of people in the U.S., including low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities. States administer the …See the Story
Q&A: Explaining the health care coverage gap
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandNote: This editorial is featured in Mississippi Today’s weekly legislative newsletter. Subscribe to our free newsletter for exclusive access to legislative analysis and up-to-date information about what’s happening under the Capitol dome. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann is a good man who has dedicated his adult life to helping Mississippians. That’s why so many Mississippians are baffled by his dug-in position on Medicaid expansion, which right now th…See the Story
The unlikely Mississippi politician who could tank Medicaid expansion
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandTalk more; proclaim less. It’s one of our mottos here at The Center for Practical Ethics (TCPE). To put another way, we might say our goal is to foster conversations rather than diatribes. This task is more difficult than most realize. What we know as ethicists is that merely having conversations isn’t enough. There’s a wide variety of skills needed for fruitful dialogue to take place, and some are harder to come by than others. The ideal conv…See the Story
At The Center for Practical Ethics, it’s all about dialogue - and the willingness to be wrong
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandApril 18, 1959 The Youth March for Integrated Schools on Oct. 25, 1958. A second march followed on April 18, 1959. Credit: Courtesy of National Archives About 26,000 students took part in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C. They heard speeches by Martin Luther King Jr., A. Phillip Randolph and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins. In advance of the march, false accusations were made that Communists had infiltrated the group. In resp…See the Story
On this day in 1959
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