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A bipartisan pair of senators, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Mississippi’s Roger Wicker introduced a bill on Tuesday to overturn the Education Department’s removal of nursing from the list of professional degrees.

Today’s Crooked Letter menu has several flavors: college baseball, the Ferriss Trophy, Aaron Rei’s much-deserved PGA Championship victory, another remembrance of Charlie Rugg, the NBA phenom named Wemby and much, much more.

Clocked In was a free workforce expo that aimed to connect employers, jobseekers and community organizations to help people find work, training and other resources.

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers.

The impact of the Supreme Court decision is almost certain to trickle down to the state and local level, as the decision significantly narrows how courts can require states to account for race in redistricting.

A federal trial has been delayed until Aug. 3 for Stephen Spencer Pittman, who is charged in setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue in January.

Civil rights icon Brenda Travis was jailed at 15 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter in McComb and leading protests. She died Sunday at age 81.

Factors leading to community resistance of data centers include the depletion of water systems, pollution and the increased energy costs to consumers.

House Democratic Leader Robert Johnson of Natchez says that as states across the nation become embroiled over racial and partisan gerrymandering of voting districts, he believes now they’ll know “what it’s like to be in Mississippi” with its long struggles with voting rights and drawing district lines. What other states see as unprecedented political battle, Johnson said, “We call Tuesday.”

The ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case places Mississippi and other Southern states at the center of a national partisan and racial political battle over redistricting.