Mississippi Today is seeking an experienced reporter to join our health team. The Community Health Reporter will be a cornerstone member of our health team, launched...
A complaint by the Southern Poverty Law Center asks the U.S. Department of Treasury to investigate alleged discriminatory funding of water infrastructure in Jackson through the...
DUNDEE — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley on Wednesday night rattled off a list of talking points about Medicaid expansion and New Testament theology to about...
A 24-year-old former Ole Miss student accused of stabbing a Tennessee man in the neck in 2019 will graduate from another school days before his attempted...
MAY 5, 1917 Eugene Jacques Bullard Eugene Jacques Bullard became the first Black American combat pilot. After the near lynching of his father and hearing that...
Mississippi Today investigative reporter Anna Wolfe has won the Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting for her tenacious series “The Backchannel.” Wolfe’s series unearthed new evidence...
Former Gov. Phil Bryant opted Thursday to release hundreds of pages of text messages with figures in the Mississippi welfare scandal after initially fighting a subpoena...
HATTIESBURG – Nearly a year after a Forrest County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a mentally ill man, the man’s family has filed a federal wrongful death...
MAY 4, 1884 Ida B. Wells Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, an African-American native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, was riding a train from Memphis to Woodstock,...
Incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says he’s not just facing a Democratic opponent, he’s up against a national cabal of East- and West-coast liberal elites and...