At the U.S. District Court in downtown Jackson Monday, Judge Henry Wingate approved putting even more of the city’s aging and broken infrastructure under the control...
Mississippi received over $2.5 billion from the federal government in pandemic relief money in 2020 and 2021 to improve education and to address the impacts of...
Mississippi continues to rank first in the nation in fetal deaths, according to 2021 data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week....
JULY 31, 1874 Credit: The Library of Congress Patrick F. Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Healy was the first African...
Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender, Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance break down the candidates’ strategy, presentation of their speeches and the crowd’s reaction to those speeches at...
Like so many good things, Growing Resilience In The South (GRITS) was born at Sadé Meeks’ grandmother’s kitchen table. Several years ago, the South Jackson native,...
JULY 30, 1866 Credit: Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress Black men, many of them veterans of the Civil War, were killed in New Orleans when they...
Some see the issue of cutting Mississippi’s grocery tax as a partisan divide. After all, in three of the past four gubernatorial elections, the Democratic candidate...
JULY 29, 1910 Credit: Texas Historical Commission After a series of lynchings, a massacre took place in the unincorporated town of Slocum near Palestine, Texas, killing...
Delta State University President Daniel Ennis met Thursday with the school’s marching band students in the wake of revelations that the recently hired band director had...
