Federal judge orders five-day “humanitarian” restoration of water at an apartment complex in Mississippi’s capital city mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/j...

Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.

Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money 'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…

apnews.com/article/trum... AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

apnews.com/article/miss... Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96

apnews.com/article/wome... Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in states’ #budget and tax talks. #msleg

NEW for @mississippifreepress.org | Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines after a judge's 2023 order said the state must allow for religious exemptions. The state fell from 1st to 3rd place during the 2023-2024 school year. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes

If you’re ever curious about what Germany allows, here is the document I read today. www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...

mississippitoday.org/2025/01/20/r... #msleg

That time in 2012 when #Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland jokingly proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He was protesting anti-immigrant sentiment in politics. #msleg www.djournal.com/news/state-r...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to several people, including the late civil right activist Fannie Lou Hamer of #Mississippi. Accepting Hamer’s medal on behalf of her family was her niece, Doris Hamer Richardson.

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, has died. He was 100. apnews.com/article/jimm...

apnews.com/article/jame... Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his #Mississippi hometown

In June, I drove up to Sebastopol, MS to interview Brandy Moore, a mother of four who was recently arrested and facing a possible 20-year prison sentence. Her crime: using drugs while around 15-weeks pregnant in 2019. At the time, she was considering an abortion, which was still legal then.

San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo mynorthwest.com/4018949/san-...

apnews.com/article/miss... Judge declares mistrial after jury says it cannot reach a verdict in the killing of a gay University of #Mississippi student

apnews.com/article/miss... Jury considers charges against man in killing of University of #Mississippi student

apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in University of #Mississippi student's death lied to investigators, Oxford police chief says

I wrote about the case last week. The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds. I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

apnews.com/article/clar... Clarke Reed, a former #Mississippi GOP chairman who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96

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apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in the killing of an Ole Miss student gave conflicting information, police say

apnews.com/article/miss... State Sen. Jennifer Branning wins a #Mississippi Supreme Court seat

apnews.com/article/miss... The #NAACP ends its challenge over #Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city

apnews.com/article/miss... An Ole Miss student exchanged messages with the man now on trial in his killing, police say

apnews.com/article/miss... Trial begins for the man charged in the killing of an Ole Miss student who was known in the local LGBTQ+ community

‘To understand the scope of the tragedy of Lisa Marie Presley, and why she couldn’t find her own identity or get out from under the loss of her father, you need to have some understanding of the scope of the Elvis tragedy, who he was and what he meant.’ Jessica Olin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Beauford Delaney was a Tennessean that ended up in Paris. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Here’s his portrait of James Baldwin.

apnews.com/article/pari... Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire

apnews.com/article/miss... Candidates in tight race for #Mississippi Supreme Court as Amy St. Pe' wins Court of Appeals seat

apnews.com/article/miss... #Mississippi seeks #execution date for 1993 killing, but lawyers say case could go to US Supreme Court. #DeathPenalty

apnews.com/article/miss... Voters will choose judges for Mississippi's top courts in runoff elections

apnews.com/article/ghan... As fast fashion's waste pollutes Africa's environment, designers in Ghana are finding a solution

apnews.com/article/miss... Court agrees with ban on medical marijuana advertising in #Mississippi

Attorneys want the US Supreme Court to say #Mississippi has a cruel & unusual ban on voting after specific felonies, including timber theft apnews.com/article/246d...