College baseball’s regular season is in its last week, which means baseball bracketology is a popular activity. State needs to finish strong to become a Regional...
MAY 13, 1862 During the Civil War, Robert Smalls and other Black Americans who were enslaved commandeered an armed Confederate ship in Charleston. Wearing a straw...
Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, the House minority leader, talks with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance on how efforts to expand Medicaid broke down during...
MAY 10, 2007 Left to right, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young attended the 1965 funeral of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose...
We are into the second week of May, which means the college and high school baseball seasons have reached the point where every pitch matters. At...
May 8, 1969 The original Sesame Street cast. Credit: Courtesy of PBS Members of the Black Psychiatrists of America interrupted the breakfast of the trustees of...
Mississippi is collecting enough money to fund the current year’s budget passed by the Legislature in 2023 — largely due to interest earnings on federal COVID-19...
Mississippi Today’s “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” investigation has been named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. The 2023 investigation from the Mississippi...
Mississippi Today’s “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” investigation has been named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. The 2023 investigation from the Mississippi...
May 6, 1983 Alvin Sykes, who spent much of his time in the Kansas City Public Library, convinced federal prosecutors to prosecute Richard Bledsoe for a...
