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Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning and Jackson State University have reached a tentative agreement to settle the months-long federa...

A prison reform advocate on Tuesday publicly implored Republican Gov. Tate Reeves to halt the impending execution of Richard Jordan, Mississ...

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

Blues legend John Primer knew from a young age that he wanted to be a musician.“When I was two or three years old, I would go around and...

youtu.be/782f0AtqfMEIn this episode of Mississippi Stories, Marshall Ramsey talks with the owners of two Jackson culinary staples; Camp...

Teenagers sit in inflatable chairs in a dorm lobby, holding cups of fruit punch and trading laptops that are open to short stories and fanta...

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday over enforcement of a new law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs from Mississipp...

The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute and Mississippi Votes Action Fund today released the full confirmed schedule for the Democracy in Acti...

A new school year will be here before we know it, which represents more than just a return to the classroom. It presents an opportunity to i...

Politically connected members of a Mississippi company have fallen out with their Georgia partner in what promised to be a profitable busine...

A federal judge is greenlighting the execution of Richard Jordan, limiting options to avoid execution by the death row inmate.On Friday,...

Eric Marter doesn’t remember much about his mother but her loss is one his family has felt for decades. On Jan. 13, 1976, he said it fel...

Robert Gibbs, chairman of newly elected Jackson Mayor John Horhn’s transition team, discusses what issues the team has found with city admin...

JUNE 22, 1909Katherine Dunham Credit: WikipediaEsteemed choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham was born in Joliet, Il...

Give Mississippi legislators credit. Without being cajoled, threatened or begged, they fully funded education during the recently completed...

Over the next 13 years, Mississippi is expected to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from companies that profited off Mississippians w...

Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport is set to receive much-needed upgrades and improvements after receiving more than $4.1 mill...

The man in a Dallas Cowboys baseball hat would rather be home sleeping, but instead he was sitting in a car in the parking lot of the plasma...

Sophia Slade uses a drill during the FORGE Girls Construction Camp at East Mississippi Community College’s Golden Triangle Campus, Friday, J...

Gov. Tate Reeves on Thursday signed the vast majority of the state’s budget bills into law but vetoed a handful of the measures, which final...

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

JUNE 20, 1960Credit: WikipediaRenowned singer and actor Harry Belafonte was awarded an Emmy Award for his television special, “Tonig...

Federal lawmakers are considering changes to a longstanding financial aid program that could impact the amount of money thousands of low-inc...

Kids attending Stewpot’s Recreational Summer Camp enjoy reading time, Thursday, June 12, 2025 in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi...