New Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Mike Hurst talks with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance about November 2024 and 2027 elections, Medicaid expansion and party...
Members of the Mississippi Today newsroom will be in Clarksdale, Greenwood and Greenville conducting community listening sessions in June. The listening sessions are a way for...
For three rounds and 15 holes of the fourth round, Rory McIlroy made every single short putt he stood over. Then, he didn’t. And when McIlroy...
Post-pandemic absenteeism is declining in Mississippi schools, but kids are still missing more school than the pre-COVID days. At many schools, more than a third of...
JUNE 18, 1949 Ada Sipuel Fisher, right, is represented by attorneys Amos T. Hall, left, and Thurgood Marshall, center. Credit: Painting by Mike Wimmer that hangs...
It’s well known that Mississippi teens give birth at one of the highest rates in the nation. But how does this affect the lives of adolescent...
JUNE 17, 1775 Peter Salem became a hero in the American Revolution. He had been born into slavery in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1750 and was freed...
Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender interview Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney about the impact of legislation allowing him to create a state exchange where Mississippians...
Civil War reenactors brought history to life at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson as members of the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry taught attendees how soldiers of...
The U.S. Open will be played at Pinehurst No. 2 this week. It’s a golf course with which Randy Watkins is extremely familiar. Watkins says it...
