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Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau, Bobby Harrison, Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance preview the 2024 legislative session. They discuss ma...

The best job security in Mississippi might be winning an election, or in some instances appointment, to one of the down-ticket statewide of...

Dec. 30, 1875Mississippi state senator Charles Caldwell was assassinated by a mob of white men in Clinton, just west of the state’...

The Mississippi River drains more than 40% of the continental U.S. – just how much trash does it take along with it?That’s what a group...

In the early 1930s, Mississippi had over 300,000 farmers, the most ever recorded for the state in federal census records. The last survey,...

Rev. Charlton Johnson only joined Together for Hope as leader of its Delta region in September, but he began thinking about Medicaid expans...

Dec. 28, 1954Publicity photograph of Denzel Washington Credit: Paramount Pictures, photo by Mark SeligerTwo-time Oscar winner...

As Marquise Tillman led deputies on a high-speed chase through rural Mississippi in March 2019, Sheriff Todd Kemp issued a blunt order over...

All Mississippi appellate judges up for reelection in 2024 plan to seek another term on the state’s two highest courts.Four justices on...

For sports writers, sometimes the trips to cover the games are more interesting than the games themselves, especially for two sports writer...

More than ever, Mississippians are paying a premium for a public university education. For some graduates, getting a four-year degree i...

Mississippians love candy corn, they want to buy Nintendo Switch consoles, they don’t get enough sleep, they’re unlikely to work remotely o...

Mississippi school districts’ average internet bandwidth was 20 times lower than neighboring states in the 2021-22 school year, according t...

Dec. 26, 1908Jack Johnson Credit: WikipediaPro boxing pioneer Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns, becoming the first Black heav...

Two past tax cuts – both labeled the largest in state history when they were passed – are being phased in even as Gov. Tate Reeves pushes a...

Dec. 25, 1956Civil rights activist Fred Shuttllesworth Credit: WikipediaFred Shuttlesworth somehow survived the KKK bombing tha...

Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, during a 2023 interview with Mississippi Today, shared an incredible story from earlier in his life when h...

I sat down with Warwick Sabin, the new President & CEO of Deep South Today, a networked hub of nonprofit newsrooms, including Mississ...

A swing in a relatively small number of votes in the Nov. 7 general election for governor — say 10,000 — could have created all sorts of el...

Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield investigated dozens of arrests made by Rankin County deputies to report this article, which is part of a se...

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Dec. 31, 1970Black family arriving in Chicago in 1920 Credit: The New York Public Library photographBetween 1916 and 1970, mor...

Dec. 22, 1997Myrlie Evers and Reena Evers-Everette cheer the jury verdict of Feb. 5, 1994, when Byron De La Beckwith was found gui...

St. Dominic’s Community Health Clinic at Stewpot Community Services in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Miss...

On June 1, 1960, Lyrian Barry-Stallings, a 5-foot-tall Black woman, boarded a Greyhound bus in Columbus to get to St. Louis, Missouri. She...