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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Column: Mississippi native and New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren's incredible story is one of waiting your turn and never ...

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

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.

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 ...

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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