Chokwe Antar Lumumba is ending his second term as mayor of Mississippi's capital city. He pledged to make Jackson the most ...

The decision comes less than three months after the federal government revoked billions nationwide as part of Trump ...

Mississippi Today's editor-in-chief has won the state press association's top commentary award for his writing about Medicaid ...

Mississippi superintendents accused of paying each other tens of thousands of dollars for consultant services never rendered, ...

Most laws passed this year by the Mississippi Legislature, including tax increases and cuts, take effect July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.

Jackson students who attended Freedom Schools this summer march in a gymnasium on Friday morning, June 27, 2025 at Thomas Cardozo Middle School. Credit: Devna Bose/Mississippi Today A cacophony of ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a witness to 11 executions, plans to travel to Parchman to pray outside if Richard Jordan’s is executed ...

Marshall Ramsey, a nationally recognized editorial cartoonist, was previously Mississippi Today’s Editor-At-Large. He is the editor of the Mississippi Media Lab at the University of Mississippi School ...

Smith's campaigns for U.S. Senate have not been easy in any way. Will her reelection bid in 2026 be any different?

Neighborhood kids loved civil rights hero Medgar Evers. As he drove down the street, they called his name and begged him to play football. His daughter, Reena, was the weight on her father’s ankles ...

Many of the others who visited the Jackson ImmunoTek Plasma Donation Center on a recent weekday morning haven’t struck the ...

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