By Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs / Special Report from Teaching Tolerance

Vickie Malone’s students see integration when they gather in her classroom at McComb (Mississippi) High School. Black and white youngsters talk and study with peers they’ve known since elementary school. But Malone doesn’t want her students to see integration.

She wants them to think about it, to understand their families’ roles in the struggle that, to some extent, continues in their Mississippi town.  She doesn’t want them to learn history; she wants them to do history.

The Mississippi Tribune has moved its offices to 638 Delaware Ave. near downtown McComb. The phone number remains the same: 601-869-4088.

The new location is home for the Sa/es/Marketing department as well as the news room, circulation-distribution, and administrative. Regular office hours are Monday through Friday from 9am until 3pm. The company welcomes advertisers, subscribers, readers, and news stories submissions at the office.

By Darryl James

America loves its blame game. No matter what is going wrong in the world, all you have to do is point to someone else, blame them and then go about your business pretending that you are simply a victim.

We see this in many areas, including the ever problematic generation gap. Any of us with a working brain knows that today’s youth are failing to reach the mark set by previous generations, but unfortunately, yesterday’s generation is laying all of the blame at the feet of a generation that was largely abandoned and forced to find its own way.

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Judge Strong ordered that the February 4th court hearing between McComb Mayor Zach Patterson and the selectmen of the McComb city board be postponed until March 2nd.

Patterson filed a lawsuit against the selectmen protesting a special called meeting that he was not included or notified regarding the meeting as required by law.