Yazoo City native Rod Walker, a Mississippi State-educated engineer, switched careers and became an award-winning sports writer, first at the Clarion Ledger and now at the...
JULY 5, 1827 This illustration of the emancipation of Black Americans ran in Harper’s Weekly. A day after those enslaved were freed in the state of...
Brian Snitker, a 67-year-old grandfather who managed the 2005 Mississippi Braves, has the Atlanta Braves in first place by nine games. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) As this...
Tyree Irving, the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party since 2020, resigned as dozens of the state party’s executive committee members appeared poised to remove him...
JULY 2, 1946 Credit: National Park Service On his 21st birthday, Medgar Evers and six other World War II veterans, including his brother, Charles, tried to...
Gov. Tate Reeves proudly proclaims in a campaign advertisement that “more of our people are working in Mississippi than ever before.” That statement running on local...
The governing board of Mississippi’s public university system announced that Alcorn State University’s interim president is leaving next month to focus on his family. The change,...
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s plan for student debt relief that would have forgiven between $10,000 and $20,000 in student loan debt for...
GRENADA — Brandon Presley, the lone Democratic candidate running for governor, declined on Thursday to weigh in on whether Tyree Irving should resign as chairman of...
The governing board of Mississippi’s eight public universities will review its admission policies in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the consideration of...
