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Black evangelist drew Black and white in 1920s Gulfport
By ISABELLE TAFT, THE SUN HERALD
Thu,02/24/22-11:55AM , 212 Reads
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — One Sunday morning in June 1924, thousands of Mississippians — Black and white — flocked to a bayou in Gulfport, along Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
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MS Coast native acts in ABC series on Emmett Till’s murder
By ISABELLE TAFT, THE SUN HERALD
Mon,02/07/22-4:28PM , 257 Reads
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Before deciding whether to watch her daughter’s performance in an ABC series about the murder of Emmett Till, Lillie Holloway Graves prayed.

For Holloway Graves and her daughter, Gulfport High graduate Schelle Purcell, the history portrayed in “Women of the Movement” was close to home, and it was painful.
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One woman's ‘Kitchen Bible’ has fed the Coast for 25 years
By ISABELLE TAFT, THE SUN HERALD
Fri,02/04/22-9:52PM , 332 Reads
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — When Audrey Duncan moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast about 25 years ago, it was nearly impossible to find a restaurant serving the home-style southern cooking she grew up eating in Natchez.
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English as a second language teacher Paula Montoya helps student Reinaldo Caraballo with his classwork on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021 in Pascagoula, Miss. Montoya assists many students whose first language is not English. The Pascagoula-Gautier School District has by far the largest English Learner population of any on the Coast, at about 13% as of May 2021, most of whom are native Spanish speakers. That’s one of the five biggest EL populations in the state, according to data the Sun Herald requested from the state Department of Education. (Hannah Ruhoff /The Sun Herald via AP)

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A Miss. district defies the odds to educate English learners
By ISABELLE TAFT, THE SUN HERALD
Fri,01/28/22-11:58AM , 323 Reads
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Joseph Santana wanted to make sure his classmate understood.

It was the second period of the day at Pascagoula High School, and in Mr. Roberts’ Problems of American Democracy class, the juniors were studying the Progressive Era.
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