Jackson Free Press

A Kaiser Health News analysis found 695 hospitals with higher than expected rates for at …

• October 23, 2014

Students of Jackson Public Schools get an up close look at one of Jackson’s fire …

• November 17, 2017

Doug Jones scored the first Democratic Senate victory in a quarter-century in Alabama, one of …

• December 13, 2017

Jennifer Johnson presented polling data from LJR Custom Strategies to the Better Together Commission. It …

• March 7, 2018

Jena Howie (center) was one of the presenters at JXN Gumbo. Her project, Magnolia Coin, …

• March 28, 2018

Rhonda Richmond is one of many performers for Operation Shoestring’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’: …

• May 31, 2017

Not one Republican lawmaker called on Karl Oliver to resign Monday, after his infamous lynching …

• June 7, 2017

Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a 35-year-old attorney, was inaugurated as mayor of Jackson on Monday. He …

• July 3, 2017

The path that brought rapper and activist Genesis Be to a New York City stage, …

• September 9, 2020

Jackson Free Clinic Director of Research and Education Jojo Dodd says their patients have been …

• April 9, 2021

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves does not plan to issue a mask mandate for schools, even …

• July 28, 2021

U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson says the intent of the CARES Act that Congress passed was …

• April 29, 2020

Mississippi legislators are beginning their 2021 session Tuesday and one of their first tasks will …

• January 5, 2021

Households that qualify for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families may receive a one-time sum of …

• December 23, 2021

One of Mississippi's Republican U.S. senators said that if President Joe Biden nominates a Black …

• February 1, 2022

‘Standing Close By’ The JFP Interview with Dr. Hannah Gay

Dr. Hannah Gay received international acclaim after the news of an apparent “cure” of an HIV-infected child in her care became public in March.

Melton Polling High in First JFP/16-WAPT Poll

A March 12 telephone poll of 763 registered Jackson voters conducted by ZATA-3 Consulting in Washington, D.C., found that Jackson Mayor Frank Melton gets an excellent grade from 42 percent …

[Kamikaze] Not So Sweet Sixteen

As a hip-hop artist, I often find myself defending rap music. To many, it's the grinch that stole society's soul, the scourge reducing our youth to mindless purveyors of evil. …

Johnny Dupree's Win and ‘Redneck-Blackneck Politics of the Deep South'

In a new piece on Salon.com, writer Steve Kornacki argues that Democrats are pretty washed up in the Deep South, Johnny Dupree's historic victory notwithstanding. He writes:

Dr. Thomas Mosley, UMMC professor of geriatric medicine, is one of the lead researchers of …

• July 14, 2010