On Sept 10, 1962, the Supreme Court ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. The decision should have ended the matter. Meredith, a Black United States Air Force veteran, had successfully established his right to attend the taxpayer-supported university. But Mississippi officials refused to accept the ruling, turning one man’s effort to pursue an education into a three-week confrontation over segregation, federal authority and the meaning of equal citize

This week: late changes to mail voting, federal pressure on race-conscious education, the meaning of two September 4 anniversaries, Akron housing and community investment, and the growing fight over AI imitation in music.

History has a way of placing events beside one another that, at first glance, seem unrelated. September 4 is one of those dates.