Mississippi Today

Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicide and suicide, officials say these prisons are...

Jan. 5, 1939 The documentary on Pauli Murray was released in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Amazon StudiosPauli Murray applied to the Un...

Marshall Ramsey: Juggling Act Mississippi Today.

For many there is no more cherished right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution than the freedom of speech and, of course, its accompanying fre...

WASHINGTON — In one of his last official acts as president, Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including...

Before we get into today’s review of last night’s Gator Bowl and this Ole Miss football team, we should pay tribute to Jaxson Dart, whose na...

Jan. 3, 1933 Credit: Courtesy of UMMCDr. Aaron Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. Before he could pronounce the word “doc...

Marshall Ramsey: Medals Mississippi Today.

April Guest remembered seeing the outline of her breath appear inside her Ashland home. During the nights after the 2023 winter ice storm hi...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton football star s...

President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investiga...

Marshall Ramsey: 2025 Mississippi Today.

Mississippi lawmakers next year will have to put together two complex jigsaw puzzles when they gather under the Capitol dome for their 2025...

The Clevelands review the year that was in Mississippi sports (and take a brief look forward to 2025).Stream all episodes here....

Lakiyah Green, an expecting mother, holds her stomach outside the Bolivar County Library in Cleveland, Miss., on Friday, Dec. 7, 2024, after...

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

Among the many breathtaking mementos on display at Curtis Wilkie’s home in Oxford is a photograph that students of American history and poli...

Former Auditor Steve Patterson joins Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau, Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender to discuss a government waste study...

The Mississippi Attorney General’s office declined to prosecute and cleared law enforcement officers for their use of force in a third of al...

Marshall Ramsey: The Reunion Mississippi Today.

Roger Wicker is continuing a long tradition of Mississippians serving in powerful positions in the U.S. Senate.It was expected when Repu...

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

Another client of former licensed professional counselor Wade Wicht is accusing him of sexual abuse, joining two other women who have alread...