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Jackson's first people's assembly took place at the Smith Robertson Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 28, ...
Six members of the revamped Jackson school board took their oath on Tuesday, Nov. 29, ...
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Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she prayed for Conyers, who was hospitalized in Detroit, and ...
The White House is discussing a plan to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (pictured) ...
Patrick Webb is an associate professor of criminal justice at St. Augustine's University, a historically ...
Continuing to chip away at the state's meager budget in order to fund tax cuts ...
Christopher Freeze is the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI for Mississippi.
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Jody Owens II, the managing attorney for the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law ...
Johnnie McDaniels is the executive director of the Henley-Young Juvenile Detention Center in Jackson. He ...
This is a screenshot from WAPT’s perp-walk video of an accused 16-year-old. Media asked JPD ...
The holiday season, try baked goods from the 2017 winner for Best Bakery and Best ...
Even if you don't care at all about young accused Jacksonians, replacing bad policing and ...
With a few exceptions such as the administration of Gov. Paul B. Johnson Sr. in ...
States with higher black populations, like Mississippi, are more likely to have restrictive eligibility policies ...
Before Thanksgiving, the Jackson City Council approved a skating rink to go up for two ...
State economist Darrin Webb warned lawmakers that a Mississippi lottery would disproportionately affect low-income groups.
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“Night of Musical Artistry” takes place Saturday, Dec. 1, this year and features musicians Avery*Sunshine ...
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the law in 2016, but it was blocked for more ...
Roy Moore was removed as Alabama chief justice in 2003 when he disobeyed a court ...
Hinds County voters will elect a new county attorney today. The election is between Gerald ...
The Mississippi Children's Museum satellite in Meridian will be located inside a former Sears department ...
Dyshante Bennett (left), Sophia Bowley (center) and Oluwatosin Akinyemi (right) Photo courtesy Jackson Public Schools
Los Angeles-native R&B singer Leela James’, whose latest album is titled "Did It for Love," ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, singer Stephanie Luckett opened up the Leela James show at ...
Leela James’ “The Soul Tour” made a stop at Jackson’s The Hideaway on Wednesday, Nov. ...
Psychedelic rock band The JAG performed songs such as its latest singles, "A Star Is ...
On Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, the Jackson-native band The JAG performed at Duling Hall
Fourteen women graduated from the Thinking for a Change program at the Flowood Community Work ...
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Carlos Moore said Monday that he has received five death threats because of the lawsuit ...
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Millsaps College dedicated a new statue of Mississippi native author Eudora Welty on Monday, Nov. ...
Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps questioned the lateness of the nominations Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba ...
JFP Editor-in-chief Donna Ladd is super grateful for a remarkable newspaper team that brings their ...
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Mississippi Children's Museum will host Santa Saturdays every week from Nov. 25 to Dec. 23. ...
Mississippi-native author J.C. Villegas signs copies of her book, “Journey of a Cotton Blossom,” on ...
Every day, as more and more stories of sexual harassment and abuse at the hands ...
The state is treating mental illness like a common cold or the flu that goes ...
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Jimmie Edwards is the pastor at Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church, which is part of a ...
The Center for Pregnancy Choices’ Fondren office opened in May, but Executive Director Erin Kate ...
JPS Interim Superintendent Freddick Murray told the “Better Together” Commission” in November that the rate ...
"I can’t say enough about what my newest project does for my spirit and hope ...
Jackson stand-up comics Rita Brent and Merc B. Williams are two of entertainers featured in ...
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday discounted allegations of sexual assault against Alabama Republican Senate nominee ...
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday the pressure campaign was starting to bite in ...
CBS News fired morning show host Charlie Rose on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after ...
Attorney General Jim Hood assembled a statewide mental-health task force this fall, but those meetings ...
Ajit Pai distributed his alternative plan to other FCC commissioners Tuesday in preparation for a ...
Jaco's Tacos in Jackson, which posted on its Facebook page that it would be closed ...
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The Lumumba administration will host its first People's Assembly next week. Rukia Lumumba chairs the ...
Commissioner Glenn Boyce announced that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation donated $3.5 million to IHL to ...
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The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review says it found "numerous instances ...
"Better Together" Commission members responsible for drafting the request-for-proposal for an independent contractor crowded into ...
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Trump moved quickly Thursday to condemn accusations against Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken as "really ...
The Jackson State University Sonic Boom Marching Band plays during the 2017 Career Expo on ...
Roy Moore ignored mounting calls from Washington Republicans concerned that he may not only lose ...
Students of Wingfield and Lanier high school play a game of tug of war at ...
Students of Jackson Public Schools get an up close look at one of Jackson’s fire ...
During the 2017 Career Expo Nov. 15, 2017, at the Jackson Convention Complex, Jackson Public ...
On Nov. 15, 2017, Jackson Public Schools students attended the 2017 Career Expo at the ...
Mississippi's Supreme Court justices said a chancery judge ruled correctly that documents from the Mississippi ...
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant money would be paid directly to a college or university ...
The U.S. Department of Justice wrote the City of Jackson asking if its anti-profiling ordinance ...
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Gov. Phil Bryant released his budget priorities this week, which call for an increase in ...
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is recommending that the state spend $7 million in the coming ...
Outside of smoothing streets around the museum and discussing a possible new pothole technology at ...
William J. “Bill” Simmons, who ran the racist Citizens’ Council for years in Jackson, worked ...
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Both men and women have a hard time believing a woman is targeted for any ...
Ronnie Crudup Jr. is the executive director of New Horizon Ministries.
Source: Mississippi Department of Education archived public school enrollment data (1966-2006 archived; 2007-2016 online). *Enrollment ...
As president of Parents for Public Schools of Jackson for 12 years, Susan Womack worked ...
Alan Huffman, pictured at his home in Bolton, attended a Citizens’ Council school for a ...
Source: “Comparison of Enrollment by Race in Mississippi Public Schools,” (1969-1971), archived report by Mississippi ...
Brenda Walker is pictured here in a portrait taken during her time at Central High ...
Brenda Walker graduated from integrated Lanier High School in 1971 after experiencing frequent school days ...
An African American first grader clutched his mother’s hand as he arrived for the first ...
Robert “Bob” Miller began as the director of Jackson’s Department of Public Works in October, ...
Jackson State University unveiled a refurbished statue of James (Jim) Hill on Thursday, Nov. 9, ...
All but one commissioner met Wednesday, Nov. 8, to discuss how the “Better Together Coalition” ...
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with family—and through buying locally.
Kirk Franklin, a 12-time Grammy Award-winning gospel artist, performs with R&B artist Ledisi at Thalia ...
Officers are investigating at least five crime scenes in and around a school in Rancho ...
David Raines, a Madison resident and professional chef with more than 15 years of restaurant ...
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann's office presented Hinds County, City of Jackson and state public ...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be ...
Roy Moore's support from fellow Republicans is hemorrhaging after a second woman accused the Alabaman ...
Donald Trump Jr. released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during ...
A preservation group wants the Chicago home where Emmett Till once lived to receive landmark ...
Two years after Choctaw activist Rexdale Henry was found dead in his jail cell, a ...
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee recently set an estimate that Mississippi will have slightly less ...
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"It is important for the world to know, the American government may have pulled out ...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History—two entities under a single ...
Gov. Phil Bryant addressed a room full of veterans to commemorate Veterans Day on Thursday, ...
Millsaps College hosted a ground-breaking ceremony for the Windgate Visual Arts Center on the west ...
Photo courtesy Cucho Gonzales
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will have exhibits that tell the story of the state's ...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History cover 15,000 years of ...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will tell the story of the state's checkered past through ...
On, Nov 7, 2017, the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum held ...
Mississippi Board of Education Chairwoman Rosemary Aultman cleared the air on Mississippi Department of Education's ...
As a member of Jackson's ADA Advisory Council and Mississippi Showing Up for Racial Justice ...
The Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees is back in business after the city council ...
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Mississippi right now plans to execute prisoners using a three-drug process, with a sedative called ...
Under the achievement school district structure, Gov. Phil Bryant wouldn't be required to approve board ...
Fondren Barber Shop Trip Burns/File Photo
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Meeya Thomas likes to design shoes with high heels. “The higher the heel, the closer ...
Meeya Thomas created her first shoe line in 2013 and has been doing it ever ...
In the coming weeks, we will continue to hear about how domestic violence should have ...
Lucky Town Brewing Company will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a party on Friday, Nov. ...
The Paul Brock Band, a traditional Irish-music ensemble, performs at the Fairview Inn on Nov. ...
With the exception of how lawmakers spend tax dollars and the performance results of those ...
Last summer, JATRAN's buses were often breaking down, at times even without air conditioning in ...
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Eula V. Polk, the 105-year-old daughter of a midwife, is pictured to the right with ...
The Scott Ford Houses on Cohea Street, now falling apart, were once home to a ...
Scott Crawford, a disability advocate in Jackson, said it is a civil-rights violation for taxis ...
State Superintendent Carey Wright requested more than double the current early-education state funding to expand ...
I'm a journalist to find solutions for issues such as youth crime. And that means ...
Seizing his party's first major Trump-era victory, Democrat Ralph Northam (pictured) beat back a charge ...
Republican Gov. Paul LePage vetoed five different attempts by the state Legislature to expand the ...
Judge John Shirley resigned from his post at Pearl Youth Court in October, after the ...
Opha Drake seen shaking Mayor Lumumba’s hand durning Open House City Hall tour on Nov ...
At an open house at City Hall on Nov. 3, 2017, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba ...
Guests explore Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba’s office on Nov. 3, 2017, during an open house ...
Opha Drake shakes Mayor Lumumba’s hand during the Open House tour of City Hall on ...
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba held an open house at City Hall on Nov 3, 2017.
During the open house at City Hall on Nov. 3, 2017, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba ...
On Nov. 3, 2017, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba hosted an Open House for Jacksonians at ...
The polls are open to fill the seat for the Hinds County attorney, who is ...
The Winning Smile Dental Group opened a new clinic at 4505 Interstate 55 N. Frontage ...
The law was supposed to turn over control of Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport ...
Grenada-based attorney Carlos Moore's Mississippi flag lawsuit is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme ...
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba opened his office chambers to the public on Nov. 3, inviting ...
Photo courtesy Joshua McCoy/Ole Miss Athletics
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, has said that including a ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (pictured) said that Rosa Maria ...
The calls from House Speaker Paul Ryan and others follow a series of news reports ...
Gov. Greg Abbott called Sunday's attack the worst mass shooting in Texas history. It came ...
Infinity Science Center is displaying the command module from Apollo 4, an unmanned 1967 mission ...
On, Nov. 2, 2017, “Jackson Indie Music Presents” gave us a preview durning Fondren's First ...
Lead singer, Micah, of Empty Atlas performs at Sneaky Beans on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, ...
Kerry Thomas sings on stage on Duling Ave at Fondren’s First Thursday “Jackson Indie Music ...
Local music artist Vitamin CEA preforms music at Sneaky Beans on, Nov. 2, 2017, durning ...
On, Nov. 2, 2017, at Fondrens First Thursday “Jackson Indie Music Presents” gave us a ...
"This is about power," said Democratic former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, after describing an incident ...
Rev. Susan Hrostowksi, one of the plaintiffs challenging House Bill 1523, spoke out against the ...
Deborah Bynum, wife of JSU President William Bynum Jr., established the Tiger Career Closet to ...
Jeramey Anderson, one of the youngest lawmakers in the Mississippi Legislature, is challenging whoever wins ...
Trump's comments came after he tweeted several times Friday morning to criticize his former 2016 ...
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Gov. Phil Bryant announced the 15-member Better Together Commission, which ...
Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and those have been increasing for about 10 ...
Robert Shuler Smith's new defense counsel hit the ground running, filing a series of motions ...
Hinds County has the highest preterm birth rate at 16.8 percent of all the counties ...
In a court filing Thursday, attorneys for Paul Manafort defended him as a "successful, international ...
In the wake of the 2016 election, U.S. intelligence agencies publicly endorsed the consensus view, ...
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Trump tweeted Thursday morning that the case against Sayfullo Saipov, 29, "Should move fast. DEATH ...
Revenue Commissioner Herb Frierson acknowledges the rule directly challenges U.S. Supreme Court decisions forbidding states ...
In Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba’s first 100 days, the Jackson City Council (pictured, save Council ...
Mayor Lumumba (pictured here on the campaign trail) campaigned on the promise to make Jackson ...
Brett Ratner directed the "Rush Hour" film series, "Red Dragon," ''X-Men: The Last Stand" and ...
Travis Parks says the Nissan-Canton management has made a few post-election changes—painting the bathrooms, improving ...
Our cultural narrative around drug prohibition has been that some drugs are so dangerous that ...
Mayor Lumumba mentioned several initiatives, from a movie theater to a blight elimination program that ...
Attorney General Jim Hood spoke out against the Legislature's inaction on transportation funding at the ...
Sandy Middleton, executive director of The Center for Violence Prevention in Pearl, wants to see ...
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba announced the formation of a commission with the governor’s office, City ...
Vowing to "stop this craziness," President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based ...
David Watkins, a Jackson developer, turned himself in to authorities on Wednesday, Nov. 8, after ...
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