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Mississippi Today is pleased to announce the addition of Katherine Lin to its Politics and Government team. Lin is a 2025 corps member of Re...

MAY 21, 1892Photo of Ida B. Wells, circa 1893 Credit: Courtesy of National Park ServiceCrusading journalist Ida B. Wells published a...

Key figures in President Donald Trump’s political operation have reportedly soured on Shad White, the Republican state auditor who intends t...

Just over half of the third graders in Jackson Public Schools are reading on grade level, according to test results released last week by th...

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

A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs En...

Southern Miss ace JB Middleton of Yazoo City and Benton Academy wins the Boo Ferriss Trophy.The newly refurbished Mississippi Sports H...

Community members and supporters gather for the grand opening of J’s Grocery in Clarksdale, Miss., Friday, May 2, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton...

Sen. Daniel Sparks, a Republican from Belmont, says the Legislature in the 1990s wrote a blank check for the state public employee retiremen...

MAY 18, 1896The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial segregation on railroads or similar public places was...

The slow, steady increase in Black Mississippians being elected to public office is the direct result of actions of the federal government —...

Credit: Marshall Ramsey

Mike Graves deferred payments to John Deere for the first time in a half century of farming in 2024.A million dollars for a cotton picke...

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 16, 1950Man speaking at microphone in front of crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading...

Quarterback Bobby Franklin (left) and John Vaught with their 1960 Sugar Bowl hardware. (Ole Miss athletics)As an Ole Miss Rebel, he was...

Gov. Tate Reeves last week attended and spoke at a fundraiser for State Auditor Shad White, whose 2027 gubernatorial aspirations at this poi...

At Thursday’s standing-room-only Board of Supervisors’ meeting, several Rankin County citizens called for Supervisor Steve Gaines to resign...

Sister Dorothea Sondgeroth, of the St. Dominic Foundation, leaves the St. Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy after a tour following the bles...

A state organization tasked with advocating for and providing legal services to Mississippians with disabilities received its delayed federa...

Griffin talks about his Blazers team, which enters the NCAA softball championship tournament this week, and about his famous son who is kill...

After Marcus Thompson’s resignation last week, Mississippi lawmakers and Jackson State University alumni are calling for more transparency a...

House and Senate leaders appear to remain at loggerheads on a $7 billion state budget, even as the deadline to fund state government for the...

Rural hospitals across the country are shuttering their labor and delivery doors, leaving millions of women – including Mississippians – wit...

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