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11/4/2021 - Teacher Shortage | Walter Anderson Documentary | Vaccines | Writer Mark A. Johnson

Education leaders wrestle with the state's intensifying teacher shortage.

Then, Mississippi artist Walter Anderson is the subject of a new TV documentary.

Plus, most Gulf Coast teenagers still aren't vaccinated against COVID-19.

And, writer Mark A. Johnson tells us about his new book on political spectacle in the Jim Crow South.


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