The opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics are tonight in Paris, and my thoughts immediately go back to the only time I covered the Olympic Games,...
ROLLING FORK — For years, the fate of a project known as the Yazoo Pumps has bounced back and forth in a game of political ping...
If you think it’s a slow time in the world of sports, don’t tell that to Xander Schauffele, the Summer Olympics, the Mississippi Sports Hall of...
JULY 24, 1919 A white mob, many of them World War I veterans, began assaulting random Black Americans after a white woman was allegedly attacked in...
JULY 22, 1939 Jane Bolin Credit: Wikipedia Jane Bolin became the first Black female judge in the United States when she was sworn in as a...
Senate Elections Chairman Jeremy England tells Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance that he plans again in the 2025 legislative session to push for in-person...
JULY 18, 1965 Credit: Courtesy of the City of Anniston, Alabama Willie Brewster was heading home after working at a pipe foundry near Anniston, Alabama, when...
Special interest groups have donated at least $117,000 to candidates running in contested elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals so...
Mississippi Today has been recognized in multiple categories of the 2024 Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, a prestigious annual competition that recognizes the best...
JULY 16, 1944 In 2001, then-President Clinton awarded Irene Morgan Kirkaldy the Presidential Citizens Medal. Credit: Photo courtesy of Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. Irene Morgan,...
