State Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, covers a wide array of issues facing the state during an interview with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender. Bryan...
JULY 7, 1961 U.S. Rep. John Lewis Credit: Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today Future U.S. Rep. John Lewis was released after 40 days from Mississippi’s most notorious...
JULY 6, 1957 Althea Gibson, in 1956, the year she won the French Open. Credit: Library of Congress Althea Gibson became the first African American to...
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...
JULY 4, 1963 Clyde Kennard — railroaded in 1960 because he dared to try to enroll at an all-white college in Mississippi — died of cancer...
The leaders of the Mississippi’s two major political parties recently offered two opposing plans for how much they plan to interact with candidates competing for one...
Rick ducks into an abandoned Boston Logan Airport terminal to tell us about the National Federation of High Schools Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Fulton’s...
JULY 3, 1917 East St. Louis Race Riot headline, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Friday, July 6, 1917 Credit: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/east-st-louis-race-riot-1917/ One of the worst racial massacres in U.S....
Despite presumptive Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women going into effect Monday, it’s still not clear how low-income pregnant women can get the timely prenatal care the...
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...
