Belhaven University’s film department started a student-led film series during the spring semester centered on Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi, to help improve the park’s online presence.
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Mississippi House Rep. Bo Brown, a Democrat from Jackson who previously served on the Jackson City Council and worked as a Jackson Public School teacher, died on Monday at age 81 after a lengthy illness.
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Sixty years ago, James Meredith began walking alone from the Peabody Hotel in Memphis as he began his March Against Fear. He was heading toward the Mississippi Delta to counter the swelling racism that had followed the passage of major rights legislation and to galvanize Black voter registration.
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Even as local opposition grows to a proposed data center site in Jackson, the company behind it has expanded its proposal from 190 to 230 acres in the Ashley Acres neighborhood.
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Jackson Mayor John Horhn is praising U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate’s decision to issue a partial injunction on the Metro Jackson Water Authority Act, a state takeover of the capital city’s water system.
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Mississippi will reimburse healthcare premiums for National Guard members’ Tricare Reserve Select insurance plans under a new law.
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As Mississippi College celebrates its 200th anniversary, it also dons a new name: Mississippi Christian University.
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Summer activities will go on as usual this summer in Jackson, Mississippi, with no changes even after the City Council dissolved the Parks and Recreation Department to save money and balance the city’s budget.
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Mississippi voting rights advocates say they are preparing for a longer fight over redistricting after Gov. Tate Reeves canceled a special session that had been expected to focus on new electoral maps.
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Mississippi Sen. David Blount and Rep. Christopher Bell have plenty of concerns about the state’s inevitable redistricting push. But they told citizens at a Jackson town hall that they also see opportunities for more competitive elections.
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The “Thacker Mountain Radio Hour” is a radio show based in Oxford, Mississippi, that invites local authors and musical artists to discuss their works or to perform. Mississippi Public Broadcasting will be airing a televised version of the show starting this fall.
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The Mississippi Department of Education announced on May 21 that 75.6% or 24,118 of third graders passed the initial administration of the third-grade reading assessment.
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The latest Jackson flood-control proposal calls for widening the Pearl River near the capital city and potentially building a dam along the waterway. But some local residents worry it won’t solve flooding issues, and others worry about the potential downstream impacts.
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Thousands of Mississippians gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent voting rights ruling that threatens the existence of majority-Black districts throughout the South.
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The Jackson City Council delayed their vote on the proposed moratorium on data center construction at their meeting on Tuesday after their legal council advised them to treat the potential ordinance like a zoning regulation.
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Thousands of Mississippians gathered in Jackson to protest against redistricting schemes to weaken Black voting power on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that unraveled a key part of the Voting Rights Act.
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On May 14, Duling Hall placed posters in Jackson advertising that music artist Phoebe Bridgers would be playing a surprise pop-up concert later that day. The performer has purposefully used this analog approach during her surprise tour to ensure that local fans are able to attend her intimate shows.
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After federal courts forced Mississippi to create more majority-Black state House and Senate districts in 2025, voters broke the GOP Senate supermajority. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling.
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The $2,000 teacher pay raise Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law isn’t enough, teachers expressed at a Scott Colom campaign event. Colom proposed no federal tax on teachers making less than $75,000.
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The Jackson City Council approved demolishing four abandoned buildings at its May 5 meeting, continuing its effort to reduce the city’s blight problem.
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A new initiative from the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is promoting community resources for Mississippians with autism, while its director says adult support remains one of the biggest gaps in care.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves vowed that U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson’s “reign of terror” will be over “soon,” referring to the state’s only Black member of Congress. He canceled a special session on redistricting set for this month, but says he expects congressional and state legislative redistricting to happen before the 2027 elections.
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Mississippians can receive free sexual and reproductive healthcare and hygiene items, including tampons, pads, condoms, baby formula, over-the-counter birth control, reproductive health kits and emergency contraceptives at the GetPersonal Clinic at the Jackson Medical Mall Suite 459 on Friday, May 15, from noon to 6 p.m. while supplies last.
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Ellen Morris Prewitt released a new, literary fantasy novel, “When We Were Murderous Time Traveling Women,” on April 1, 2026. The book’s protagonists take inspiration from three of the author’s local grandmothers.
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The Mississippi Legislature no longer has to redraw its state Supreme Court district maps to create a majority Black district after a federal court vacated an order requiring the State to create a new map that complies with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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The City of Jackson is seeking community input on how to improve facilities at the Jackson Zoo and Livingston Park in the hopes of making the area a city destination similar to Flores Park or the Children’s Museum.
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After losing her mother to cancer in 2023, Madison, Miss., resident Shelley Powers established her own literary imprint called Creekline House, under which she has already published two books.
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For the first time since news of Mississippi’s $77 million welfare scandal first broke in 2020, a judge has sentenced one of its conspirators, even as six others await sentencing. Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Adrienne Wooten sentenced accountant Anne McGrew, 69, to one year in prison.
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Two Mississippi senators on opposing sides of the SHIELD Act are discussing whether birth certificates can be made easier to access for people who may need them to stay registered to vote.
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The Metro Jackson Water Act, a new law creating an authority to take over the Mississippi capital city’s water system, is temporarily blocked while a federal judge reviews its legality.
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