ISSAQUENA COUNTY — The kings and queens of the South Delta School District tossed candy and waved at their families as the mid-October parade wound through...
Dec. 3, 1841 Frederick Douglass circa 1879 Credit: Wikipedia Frederick Douglass founded and edited his first antislavery newspaper, “The North Star,” in Rochester, New York. The...
Despite election problems in Democratic-voter rich Hinds County, Brandon Presley did not delay his concession speech to incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on the night of...
Dec. 2, 1986 In 1986, Mike Espy became the first Black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Seven years later, he became the first Black secretary of...
Mississippi Today, in partnership with The Atlantic, convened local leaders, policymakers and journalists in downtown Jackson on Thursday to discuss problems and opportunities facing Mississippi, the...
The superintendent of the newly renamed women’s prison at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility was removed from her position this week. Several advocates told Mississippi Today...
Weeks after the state asked to set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it will not schedule one...
In his first press conference as Jackson State University’s 13th president, Marcus Thompson pledged to improve “customer care,” accountability and financial sustainability at the historically Black...
State Health Department officials decided to split $4 million in state funds to two Mississippi health care systems vying to open burn centers. The decision comes...
When Janice Scaggs joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2020, she became part of a growing effort by the state’s largest public hospital and...