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Civil Rights Leaders, Activists Return for Miss. Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary

JACKSON, MS—Dr. Robert P. Moses, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and director of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, on Monday, June 2, will mark the 50th anniversary of the pivotal 1964 Civil Rights effort that drew hundreds of civil rights activists and college student volunteers to Mississippi from across America to register African American voters and promote civil rights. Moses will give the keynote address for the 2014 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series, and will open a new exhibit—“Stand Up!”: Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 at the William F. Winter Archives and History

Former DHS Technology Chief Paul Benda Joins GSIS

Global Security & Intelligence Strategies (GSIS) has named Paul Benda, former Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) and the Department’s former Acting Deputy Under Secretary for the of Science and Technology Directorate, as Partner and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Benda will join other GSIS Partners including Mark Sullivan, former Director of the U.S. Secret Service; Noah Kroloff, former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, David Aguilar, former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border

Mississippi to Break Ground on State History and Civil Rights Museums

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers will be among the elected officials, civil rights activists, teachers and school children participating in the ground breaking for the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 in Jackson, Miss. The Museum of Mississippi History will explore the sweep of the state’s history from earliest times to the present. The adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the nation’s first state-operated civil rights museum, will examine the struggle for equal rights and fair

NFWF Expects to Receive Funds from BP Settlement

Under the terms of the BP settlement agreement announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) expects to receive $2.394 billion over five years from BP as part of its resolution of federal criminal charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.  The agreement must be approved by a federal judge before it becomes final. NFWF will manage the funds in strict compliance with the terms of the final court-approved settlement.  NFWF expects to direct the funds largely to projects, as described today by Attorney

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