Spotlight on race relations at Laurel's FUMC

Laurel Leader Call: "The Laurel First United Methodist Church hoped to shed some light on race relations in Mississippi and Jones County in its 'Journey to the Light' exploration conference on Thursday afternoon. A number of distinguished speakers, including former federal judge Charles Pickering and Laurel Mayor Melvin Mack, spoke on the Civil Rights Movement in its original capacity in the 1950s and 60s, where it is in the present and where it needs to go in the future for true equality to be accomplished." ...more...