Mississippi Today

La Sasso becomes the second Rebel ever to win the NCAA golf title, which qualifies him for the U.S. Open in two weeks and next April’s Maste...

Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Tuesday that he will call lawmakers into a special session beginning on Wednesday to adopt a $7 billion state...

Ole Miss’ softball team is playing in the College World Series and the baseball team is hosting an NCAA Regional, but the Rebels already hav...

The award-winning musical “Come From Away” lands in Jackson, Mississippi, at a time when its true, uplifting story of cross-border bonds and...

MAY 27, 1958Ernest Green in senior graduation cap and gown; May 1958.Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine, became the first Bla...

Medgar Evers’ life will be celebrated this summer on what would have been his 100th birthday.Voting activist Stacey Abrams will be among...

Just before municipal elections this year, the city of Jackson quietly settled a more than decade-long battle over public transportation sta...

James Carville says Democrats lost in 2024 but, “We played our seventh-string quarterback and still only lost by a point-and-a-half.” He sai...

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

MAY 25, 1774A statue of Elizabeth Freeman on display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Slavery and Freedo...

In early April, the Mississippi Legislature opted to end the 2025 session and come back in special session, at greater expense to taxpayers,...

Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Friday that he intends to call a special legislative session next week for lawmakers to pass a state budget....

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

With just over a month before a new fiscal year starts, House and Senate leaders have sent Gov. Tate Reeves a proposed budget for approval. ...

In the remaining weeks before his scheduled execution, Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s oldest and longest serving death row inmate, is looking...

MOUND BAYOU — Less than 10% of adults in the Mississippi Delta went to the dentist in the last year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disea...

A group of Rankin County citizens said they will start a petition to remove Supervisor Steve Gaines from office, following Gaines’ recent co...

Weeks before the city could conclude its “100 Days of Peace” initiative, Jackson ousted the director of its Office of Violence Prevention an...

Erica Reed could feel herself tearing up as she walked into work at Jackson Medical Mall on a Monday in April. It was the first time she...

Wendy White, director of the Jackson Heart Study Undergraduate Training and Education Center at Tougaloo College, has experienced what finan...

MAY 22, 2002An Alabama jury convicted Bobby Cherry of taking part in the Ku Klux Klan’s 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that kil...

The best baseball teams in Mississippi, high school and college will be busy in post-season tournament play this week. Meanwhile, Davis Rile...