"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" reads a sign sitting on former Gov. William Winter's office desk. He keeps it there as a reminder and points to it when asked about the full ...

Rosie Smiley is used to her street in the Hightower neighborhood in south Jackson flooding in the spring. Some years the water will be 6 to 8 inches deep, like it was last year, and it tends to stick ...

Across the pod, from inside the darkness of a cell, two shining circles stared out: the still and steady eyes of a black boy, locked up before he is even a man. His cell is on the lower floor of the ...

John Salter, a social science professor at Tougaloo College, sat with his students Anne Moody, Pearlena Lewis and Memphis Norman--a white man and three black students--at the "Whites Only" counter in ...

No torrential rains accompanied the Jackson flood of 2020, no howling winds or crackling thunder. In between the soccer field and the Mississippi Basketball and Athletics building on Westbrook Road, ...

(Jackson, Miss.) The Mississippi Journalism and Education Group board of directors is proud to announce that it recently completed the acquisition of the journalism assets of the Jackson Free Press.

A graphite drawing stands out among the accolades and art that line the bright, two-toned blue walls of Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson's chambers. It depicts four women—Peterson, Tomie Green ...

Dewey Phillip Bryant attended Council McCluer High School his junior and senior years. Council McCluer was a segregationist academy founded after the U.S. Supreme Court forced schools to desegregate ...

A small group of white supremacists gathered around the Emmett Till memorial in Tallahatchie County, Miss., on Saturday morning, carrying a Mississippi flag and a League of the South flag. They were ...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Inside the four-bedroom colonial set on a small rise, Nancy Lanza was already dead. But it was early yet, and it would be hours before her body was found — time enough for her ...

JACKSON — Lawmakers seem serious about addressing welfare reform this year, potentially making it both harder to get benefits and then to stay on the rolls once a recipient has a job. But critics say ...

Not long into working the bar at the iconic Sun-N-Sand Motor Hotel in downtown Jackson, Rudolph "Cotton" Baronich thought he had seen it all. Legislators, athletes, celebrities, and businessmen were ...