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Council Overturns Mayor's Veto of Transfer of $1.6 Million of Siemens Fund

The Jackson City Council recently overturned Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba's veto of its resolution to take $1.6 million from the $89.8 million Siemens settlement with the City and separating it …

The Confederate graveyard on the UM campus, located behind the Tad Smith Coliseum, will be …

• June 18, 2020

Rhodes Scholar and UM Graduate Arielle Hudson told the Jackson Free Press she was happy …

• June 18, 2020

The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning voted to relocate the Confederate statue at the center …

• June 18, 2020

UM Confederate Statue to Move to Cemetery; Some Fear IHL Building New ‘Shrine’

The Confederate monument at the heart of the University of Mississippi campus will move to the Confederate graveyard elsewhere on campus, 114 years after its construction.

In the first round, the Texas Rangers made Mississippi State University second baseman Justin Foscue …

• June 18, 2020

Justin Foscue

In the first round, the Texas Rangers made Mississippi State University second baseman Justin Foscue the 14th pick overall. Foscue is the 15th MSU player to be drafted in the …

Mississippi State University held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, June 15, for construction on a …

• June 18, 2020

New Music Building and COVID-19 Business Assistance at MSU and JSU Grants

Mississippi State University held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, June 15, for construction on a new music building north of the university’s current band and choral rehearsal hall on Hardy …

Republican Sen. Joey Fillingane of Sumrall said the new restrictions would prevent race-based discrimination before …

• June 18, 2020

White Lawmaker Likens Abortion Limits to Civil Rights Issue

A white Republican lawmaker invoked the name of a black civil rights leader Wednesday as the Mississippi Senate advanced a bill to ban abortion based on the race, sex or …

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba had issued an executive order in April temporarily banning the …

• June 18, 2020

Judge Rules Mississippi City Can't Put Ban on Open Carry Law

A federal judge ruled Mississippi's capital city cannot restrict the state's open carry law as it did following the shooting deaths of two children during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Confederate monument will be moved from a prominent spot at the University of Mississippi …

• June 18, 2020

Confederate Statue to be Moved from Central Spot at Ole Miss

A Confederate monument will be moved from a prominent spot at the University of Mississippi to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded part of the Oxford campus.

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• June 18, 2020

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• June 17, 2020

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 489 new cases of COVID-19 today, one of …

• June 17, 2020

Mississippi Saw 489 COVID-19 Infections Tuesday, State May Not Be Reporting All Cases

Mississippi saw 489 new cases of COVID-19 as of the end of Tuesday, June 16, one of the highest single-day counts on the records since the crisis started in the …

Sheriff Lee Vance oversees Hinds County Detention Centers, which are facing a COVID-19 outbreak. Many …

• June 17, 2020