Mississippi Today

The Bean Path in Jackson, Miss., wrapped its second annual AI Month in June with the dual draw of its first Electric Vehicle (EV) show and a...

JULY 5, 1827This illustration of the emancipation of Black Americans ran in Harper’s Weekly.A day after those enslaved were freed in...

Diners turned watchful eyes to the stage as Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade took to the podium. He visited Stewpot Community Services durin...

Artist Alexis McGrigg talks about her piece “A Personal Constellation” during a media preview at the Mississippi Museum of Art on Thursday,...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...

Note: This story first published in Stateline, which is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organizat...

Karah Spencer Perkins Potter died from the kind of pervasive gun violence her family has spent decades working to curb in Jackson.At her...

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and murdering 23-m...

School districts in Humphreys County and Yazoo City are one step closer to regaining local control. The Mississippi Department of Educat...

In one of his first acts as mayor of Jackson, John Horhn announced the team that will help him lead the city, including several new faces an...

A bit over 200 years ago, a group of guys made a pretty big splash about their tea. They made history. Revolutionary, to say the least. Even...

JULY 3, 1917East St. Louis Race Riot headline, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Friday, July 6, 1917 Credit: www.blackpast.org/african-america...

The nonprofit group that administers federal family planning money in Mississippi had its funding restored Wednesday, one month after it was...

John Horhn became the mayor of Jackson on Tuesday, after his fourth run for the office. At the swearing in ceremony, several delegates — inc...

By Tuesday evening, the room where Jackson Mayor John Horhn took the oath of office between gospel performances by the Mississippi Mass Choi...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...

Before he became a Hall of Fame football coach and won 297 games, Mike Justice played on Mississippi’s first integrated high school football...

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Marshall Ramsey tours the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument with Reena Evers-Everette....

Mississippi’s crop of elite young golfers has become so accomplished in recent years it takes something especially special to raise this lon...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Baxter Kruger to become Mississippi’s new U.S. attorney in the Southern District and Scott Leary...

Two former Democratic candidates in Mississippi will be running for office under different affiliations. Ty Pinkins, a former Democratic...

John Horhn finally becomes mayor of Jackson Tuesday, after his fourth run for the office, more than $300,000 in campaign donations and too m...

After more than 10 months closed due to mold, asbestos and issues with the air conditioning system, Thalia Mara Hall has officially reopened...

On his last day as mayor of Jackson, Chokwe Antar Lumumba recounted accomplishments, praised his executive team and said he has no plans to...