The five principles guiding the Star
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The recent damage assessment of our Mississippi collection led me to remember a small, booklet-style magazine featuring local people, events, and topics of interest—created for and by the Mississippi Coast African American community. Recognizing the editor, Maurice Singleton, Jr., as a regular library patron, I was able to get enthusiastic permission for the Internet Archive to digitize and share 40 issues of the Mississippi Star.
This publication ran from August 1996 to the end of 2000
”family, health, education, business, and culture”—provided the Black community with not just visibility, but the positive representation sorely missing in other local publications. In the first issue published in 1996, editor Maurice Singleton wrote, “Media is often referred to as a ‘mirror’ of our society. If this is the case, very little of what I read in the newspapers or watch on the evening news represents me, my friends, the people with whom I worship or the people with whom I exchange waves over the course of a day.” During its four-year run, the Mississippi Star gave readers a platform to see themselves and their community excelling and achieving together.
The Mississippi Star was digitized at the Internet
Archive’s scanning center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Once the digitization process was complete, Hancock County residents gained easy, online access to a collection that likely few realized was available at their library. Outside Hancock County and Mississippi, researchers and the public interested in a variety of topics—Mississippi history, the Civil Rights Movement and its impact, community-centered media, and more—have access via the World Wide Web to quality scans and full-text search. HCLS hopes to track down the missing issues to be able to provide the full run of this publication in the future.
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