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In search of Jan-Michael Vincent
October 1, 2008

It started with an old episode of “Gunsmoke,” about a troubled kid in curiously tight pants who brings grief to everyone, including himself, before finding redemption through the decent folks of Dodge City.

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Former Republic of New Africa headquarters on Lewis Street, near downtown Jackson
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The untold story of the Wild West’s black cowboys
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Gun, Under Glass
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Saving Georgiana
January 8, 2017
A Way Station for the Blues
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Graveyards Destroyed for Mississippi Industrial Project
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The Lost Art of Katrina
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Things Go Down at Butts Park
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Junior Goes to the Fair
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The unexpected life and death of Abdel-Kader Fassouk
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‘Like the Fishes and the Loaves’
August 30, 2015
How White Flight Ravaged the Mississippi Delta
January 6, 2015
Missing Airliner Revives Age-Old Mystery of the Sea
June 16, 2014
Mississippi in Africa
April 26, 2014
Singapore’s City of the Future and the Ghost of Tom Joad
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Strangers on a Train: New Orleans to New York
December 12, 2013
Living Inside The MTV Awards
August 8, 2013
“Why’s this so good?” No. 73: Carol Smith and the cipher in Room 214
March 12, 2013
The Valley of the Moon’s Bridge to Nowhere
September 1, 2011
The Tomes of Timbuktu
February 27, 2005
Heeding the Call
September 12, 2004
Tumult and Transition in “Little America”
November 1, 2003
Eating Dirt
December 18, 1983

Stories

In search of Jan-Michael Vincent
October 1, 2008

It started with an old episode of “Gunsmoke,” about a troubled kid in curiously tight pants who brings grief to everyone, including himself, before finding redemption through the decent folks of Dodge City.

Read More

More Stories

This time, he did not escape
August 6, 2025
Rare meeting of the minds at Mississippi prison book club
May 2, 2025
Musk eliminates funding for Mississippi Humanities Council
April 4, 2025
Former Republic of New Africa headquarters on Lewis Street, near downtown Jackson
Brick pillars in the weeds, a vacant house with an unusual picture window, other hidden clues to Jackson, Mississippi’s civil rights history
February 23, 2025
Long live “Booger love Sissy”
Long live “Booger love Sissy”
April 4, 2024
The untold story of the Wild West’s black cowboys
July 4, 2019
Climate Change and the Emergency Department
May 1, 2019
Gun, Under Glass
March 13, 2018
‘This is surreal’: descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation
November 16, 2017
Susie Cagle, special to ProPublica
Hotelier-in-Chief: Here Are the Trumps’ New Hotels
July 18, 2017
Saving Georgiana
January 8, 2017
A Way Station for the Blues
December 16, 2016
Graveyards Destroyed for Mississippi Industrial Project
August 5, 2016
The Lost Art of Katrina
July 28, 2016
Things Go Down at Butts Park
July 28, 2016
Junior Goes to the Fair
July 28, 2016
The unexpected life and death of Abdel-Kader Fassouk
July 25, 2016
‘Like the Fishes and the Loaves’
August 30, 2015
How White Flight Ravaged the Mississippi Delta
January 6, 2015
Missing Airliner Revives Age-Old Mystery of the Sea
June 16, 2014
Mississippi in Africa
April 26, 2014
Singapore’s City of the Future and the Ghost of Tom Joad
January 2, 2014
Strangers on a Train: New Orleans to New York
December 12, 2013
Living Inside The MTV Awards
August 8, 2013
“Why’s this so good?” No. 73: Carol Smith and the cipher in Room 214
March 12, 2013
The Valley of the Moon’s Bridge to Nowhere
September 1, 2011
The Tomes of Timbuktu
February 27, 2005
Heeding the Call
September 12, 2004
Tumult and Transition in “Little America”
November 1, 2003
Eating Dirt
December 18, 1983