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Year-end resolutions are fine, but year-round soul work and mindfulness will serve you much better. …

• December 23, 2019

OPINION: Soul Work Required for Resolutions to Stick

People make promises to themselves that they won't keep. "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right," Oprah Winfrey said once. This year, choose …

David Archie Photo by Trip Burns

• December 23, 2019

Vitamin Cea Photo courtesy Drew Dempsey

• December 23, 2019

Angie Thomas Photo by Imani Khayyam

• December 23, 2019

Photo courtesy Arekia Bennett

• December 23, 2019

Tomie Green Photo by Seyma Bayram

• December 23, 2019

Glenn Boyce Photo courtesy University of Mississippi

• December 23, 2019

Jody Owens Photo by Seyma Bayram

• December 23, 2019

Shanda Yates Photo courtesy Scott Crawford

• December 23, 2019

Delbert Hosemann Photo by Ashton Pittman

• December 23, 2019

The Most Intriguing of 2019

These are not necessarily people who did positive things, although many did. They are Mississippians who emerged as the most interesting and who caused a lot of conversation in the …

Mississippi Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall (right), told the Jackson Free Press earlier this year that …

• December 23, 2019

Jackson Women’s Health Organization Director Shannon Brewer (right) said she is worried that anti-abortion groups …

• December 23, 2019

Abortion-rights activists protested against Mississippi’s six-week abortion ban outside the Mississippi Capitol building in May …

• December 23, 2019

Abortion Inches Closer to Supreme Court

Earlier this year, Mississippi House Rep. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, told the Jackson Free Press that part of the goal of bills like the heartbeat bill and the 15-week ban is …

The family of Paul Houser in Caledonia, Miss. In 2007, a judge sentenced Houser to …

• December 23, 2019

Dusty Houser (right) leafs through photographs of his father Paul Houser alongside his son Kyler …

• December 23, 2019

Long Sentences, Broken Lives

Paul Houser is one of 2,635 Mississippians currently serving lengthy prison terms under Mississippi's so-called "habitual laws," the state's version of "three strikes laws." Mississippi's habitual laws drive the state's …

Impeachment proceedings are serious affairs and serve a vital purpose, regardless of party. It’s hypocrisy …

• December 23, 2019