[ad_1] Nearly five months after a new law to make prenatal care more accessible to low-income women was supposed to go into effect, its fate remains unclear. The state is…
[ad_1] Marshall Ramsey, a nationally recognized editorial cartoonist, shares his cartoons and travels the state as Mississippi Today’s Editor-At-Large. He’s also host of a weekly statewide radio program and a…
[ad_1] Nov. 19, 1919 Credit: Wikipedia Police officer and World War I hero James Wormley Jones was appointed as the first Black special agent for what was later named the…
[ad_1] Mississippi College will change its name and drop its football program after the current season, the board of the private institution announced Monday. The college, in the Jackson suburb…
[ad_1] A group of anti-abortion doctors is asking the state Supreme Court to reverse its earlier ruling stating that the right to an abortion is guaranteed by the Mississippi Constitution.…
[ad_1] Voters will choose between Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens and state Sen. Jenifer Branning in a runoff election on Nov. 26, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Mississippi Today’s Adam…
[ad_1] Nov. 18, 1946 Portrait of Thurgood Marshall by artist Betsy Graves Reyneau. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Harmon Foundation Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood…
[ad_1] Years ago, some state elected leaders lamented that Mississippi has far too much bureaucracy for such a poor, small state, and vowed — for starters — to eliminate or…
[ad_1] Mississippians who are dead set on enacting private school vouchers could do like their counterparts in Kentucky and attempt to change the state constitution to allow public funds to…
[ad_1] Nov. 17, 1871 Visit of the Ku-Klux” by Frank Bellew (1872) depicts two Klansmen attacking a Black family during the Reconstruction era. Credit: Library of Congress Edward Crosby stood…
