Former state Rep. Alyce Clarke, the first Black woman to serve in the Mississippi Legislature, sat patiently in her motorized wheelchair Tuesday as her many feats...
More than 40 years after going coeducational, Mississippi University for Women will ask lawmakers this session to approve a new name: Wynbridge State University of Mississippi....
Alcorn State Univerity’s interim president appears to have at least some campus support if he wants the full appointment. But if Mississippi’s public university governing board...
Editor’s note: This story contains graphic sexual content regarding allegations of sexual abuse. Two women have reported to Hattiesburg police that counselor Wade Wicht sexually abused...
Revenue collections needed to fund Mississippi state government fell below projections for the month of January. January’s revenue collections, according to a report recently released by...
State lawmakers recently filed legislation to replace Mississippi’s two statues of white supremacists in the U.S. Capitol in Washington — a move that would follow the...
Feb. 12, 1900 Andra Day, who portrayed jazz singer Billie Holiday, performed the Negro National Anthem at Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday. Credit: Courtesy of Paramount...
Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau, Bobby Harrison, and Taylor Vance discuss several major issues that are being debated during the 2024 legislative session. Medicaid expansion, income tax...
Feb. 11, 1644 New Amsterdam depicted in a cartoon, circa 1642 Credit: Public Domain The first known legal protest by those of African descent in what...
Thick with irony is the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools’ contention that the provision of the Mississippi Constitution plainly stating that public funds cannot go to...
