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This is the 1907 Ole Miss football team, which was outscored 195-6 in six football games. Seated far right, on the second row, is the team’...

After losing reelection by a narrow margin, Central District Public Service Commissioner Brent Bailey has sent notice to Commissioner De’Ke...

Nov. 20, 1866Credit: Courtesy of Howard UniversityTen members of the First Congregational Society of Washington, D.C., met in...

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lend...

State Sen. Daniel Sparks, R-Belmont, a key ally of Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann during the recently held statewide elections, discussed a...

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‘Tis the season to be grateful. However, many are struggling to have enough to be thankful now. Stewpot Executive Director, The Rever...

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Nov. 19, 1919Credit: WikipediaPolice officer and World War I hero James Wormley Jones was appointed as the first Black special...

With Mississippi’s general election in the rearview mirror, some conservative groups and politicians are calling for legislation in the upc...

Nov. 18, 1946Portrait of Thurgood Marshall by artist Betsy Graves Reyneau. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institut...

The third-party manager of Jackson’s water system introduced a proposed new tiered billing system on Friday that would raise rates for most...

The same day the governing board of Mississippi’s public universities appointed one of its own to lead Jackson State University, a lawsuit...

U.S. Rep. Michael Guest, a Republican who represents Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District, introduced a resolution Friday morning to ex...

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Nov. 17, 1871Visit of the Ku-Klux” by Frank Bellew (1872) depicts two Klansmen attacking a Black family during the Reconstruction...

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The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees named Marcus Thompson, a deputy commissioner, the 13th president of Jackson State Uni...

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In a memory quilt by Hystercine Rankin at the Mississippi Museum of Art, National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson found...

Nov. 16, 1972Credit: Courtesy: LSU Manship School News ServiceA law enforcement officer shot and killed two students at Southe...

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Officials from the Mississippi State Department of Health reported the state’s first pediatric flu death of the 2023-2024 flu season on Wed...

Jackson Public Schools concluded its series of community meetings on proposed school closures Tuesday night with multiple parents saying th...

Recently reelected Gov. Tate Reeves and legislative leaders could not agree Wednesday on an official estimate of how much money will be ava...