United Music Scene

A.Luck is a young, vibrant rap recording artist from the soulful city of Jackson, Mississippi. His potent sound contains catchy melodies, unique tones, and has a groovy flow that's sure to make you move. A.Luck's newly released single "SAUCY" is a refreshingly upbeat song with a blissful vibe. It is the track single off his forthcoming project entitled 13 Hours. A.Luck makes fell-good music with a purpose and given the opportunity, his influence will shape the sound and content of music; one artist, one song, one listener at a time.

In 1986, Gregory Boyle, a native Angeleno and recently ordained Jesuit priest, returned from a transformative year working with the poor in Bolivia to become the pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles at the time. Located amidst Aliso Village and Pico Gardens, then the largest public housing west of the Mississippi River with the highest concentration of gang activity in a city that was the gang capital of the nation.  Continue reading...

A Mississippi sheriff says a 12-year-old girl stole her mother’s car and ran over a deputy trying to stop her. Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie tells news outlets Sgt. Kris Cokel was released from a hospital after being treated for a fractured wrist and other injuries. He says the girl struck the deputy Wednesday night at a trailer park near Meridian. Sollie says deputies had placed spike strips in the road several times to... Continue Reading...

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and enact social justice and voting rights . He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman . A World War II veteran and college graduate, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to gain admission to the state-supported public University of Mississippi for African Americans . He also worked for voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith , a member of the White Citizens' Council , a group forme...