The Democratic Governors Association announced Tuesday the organization is donating $750,000 to Brandon Presley’s campaign for governor, giving the Democratic candidate a boost in operating expenses...
A challenger for the Southern District Public Service Commission seat has filed ethics complaints against incumbent Dane Maxwell, claiming he violated campaign finance laws. Maxwell says...
At the U.S. District Court in downtown Jackson Monday, Judge Henry Wingate approved putting even more of the city’s aging and broken infrastructure under the control...
Mississippi received over $2.5 billion from the federal government in pandemic relief money in 2020 and 2021 to improve education and to address the impacts of...
Mississippi continues to rank first in the nation in fetal deaths, according to 2021 data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week....
JULY 31, 1874 Credit: The Library of Congress Patrick F. Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Healy was the first African...
Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender, Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance break down the candidates’ strategy, presentation of their speeches and the crowd’s reaction to those speeches at...
Like so many good things, Growing Resilience In The South (GRITS) was born at Sadé Meeks’ grandmother’s kitchen table. Several years ago, the South Jackson native,...
JULY 30, 1866 Credit: Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress Black men, many of them veterans of the Civil War, were killed in New Orleans when they...
Some see the issue of cutting Mississippi’s grocery tax as a partisan divide. After all, in three of the past four gubernatorial elections, the Democratic candidate...