Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Kermit Davis Sr., a Magnolia State basketball icon, was surrounded by family when died Monday in Tupelo. He was 91. Davis, who played basketball at Mississippi State ...
Voting rights advocates fear leaders in the state GOP majority will seek to undo Black voting rights gains hard won in Mississippi only after passage of the federal VRA and decades of civil rights ...
Jackson police provided no details that might explain how the 29-year-old Black woman, Tasia Fortune, ended up hanging from a ...
Ohio resident Michelle Edwards and Illinois resident Edward Porter each face a federal charge of transmitting threatening communication to kill or injure in connection with Nolan Wells' death ...
Despite having the highest percentage Black population of any state, at about 38%, Mississippi has historically had few Black elected officials, due largely to past gerrymandering and Jim Crow voting ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit ...
Department records and interviews with a former FBI agent show that the Rankin County Sheriff's Department had evidence of deputies' violent acts long before the abuses of the "Goon Squad" came to ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. At the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, the 34 men on ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. A man who was brutalized by Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. State authorizers may force SR1 College Preparatory and STEM ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. Only a fraction of Mississippi inmates diagnosed with hepatitis ...