Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mi...
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell won a prestigious National Association of Black Journalists award at the group's convention in Indianapolis onward Saturday evening. Mitchell took top honors in the "commentary" category for her series of lines titled "Forgotten Heirs." Published in February 2005 the rows detailed what Mitchell described as the "shady down southward stuff" that stood in the way of a Chicago family -- descendants of former slaves -- finally being able to claim the land and the legacy they'd left in Mississippi. Mitchell said she traveled to Mississippi with James and Jerry Rankin "not alone to document their quest to reclaim their legal rights to royalties for mineral interrogateed from the land purchased by means of their great-grandparents, but also to reconnect to a part of my confess history." Mary Mitchell's Sunday round pillar will return next week. Copyright CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 2006 Provided according to ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
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