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Clarksdale Advocate September 22 , 2025

Family suing San Diego cemetery after remains of Juneteenth trailblazer missing from burial plot

Featured ArticlesJune 19, 2023

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains...

More than 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls

Featured ArticlesJune 19, 2023

More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care...

What if things could turn out differently? How the multiverse got into our heads and didn’t let go

Featured ArticlesJune 19, 2023

“Let’s do things differently this time.” Those are the first words you hear at the beginning of this month’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” an otherworldly meditation on multiple realities...

The woman who founded Father’s Day was a renegade, great-granddaughter says

Featured ArticlesJune 19, 2023

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910...

Americans mark Juneteenth with parties, events and quiet reflection on the end of slavery

Featured StoriesJune 19, 2023

Detroit (AP) — Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated...

Republicans tout conservative credentials in lieutenant governor primary

Featured ArticlesJune 19, 2023

FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and state Sen. Chris McDaniel, the fellow Republican trying to unseat him in a primary...

Morant joins Artest, Arenas, Sprewell, others on list of suspended NBA players

Local SportsJune 16, 2023

Ja Morant’s 25-game suspension on Friday is among the longest the NBA has handed out for behavior on or off the court. The two-time All Star...

Downtown Farmers Market once again at Collective Seed

Featured ArticlesJune 16, 2023

By Josh Troy Clarksdale Advocate The fourth year of the Downtown Clarksdale Farmers Market began with three tables on Thursday night. The Farmers Market is located...

Aaron E. Henry Community Health Center organizes Community Transportation Day, Health fair, MAGnet Day

Featured ArticlesJune 16, 2023

By Josh Troy Clarksdale Advocate Community Transportation Day, Health Fair, and MAGnet Day were consolidated into one event at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church on Thursday. Representatives...

Biden will mark the anniversary of a gun safety law signed after the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre

Featured ArticlesJune 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a year ago, President Joe Biden signed the first significant piece of federal gun safety legislation in nearly three decades. It...