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Time to Swim, not Sink, Together
With evidence everywhere that good public education is key to our city and our state's economic future, not to mention public safety, it is time that to slay the dinosaurs …
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‘The Nightmare Is Over'
After serving 18 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Levon Brooks walked away from the Noxubee County courthouse a free man on March 13. Arrested for …
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Mississippi House Passes $1 Cigarette Tax
Following nearly two hours of debate, the House of Representatives passed a bill this afternoon that would raise Mississippi's cigarette tax from 18 cents to $1 per pack. House Bill …
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It Takes the Village Elders
A sense of place is a deeply understood concept in the South. The Piney Woods School, a private boarding school for black boys and girls, 21 miles south of Jackson …
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Cheryl Keeton Shelton
One wouldn't necessarily connect a sixth grade teacher with the FBI, but Daniel McMullen, special agent in charge of the FBI's Jackson division, selected just such a teacher for the …
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Weekend Events
Start the weekend off by heading to the Jackson Community Design Center at 5:30 p.m. for "Cross-Pollinate: A Speaker Series." Shahid Buttar, of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee in …
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It's Time to JAM, Y'all
You might have noticed the downtown streets blocked off as you came to work this morning. But just in case you've been hiding out, been out of touch or been …
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First Black Judge Sworn In Under Barbour
The state of Mississippi swore in its first African American judge under Republican Gov. Haley Barbour this morning.
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Your Weekend Starts Here
Start the weekend with a thought-provoking evening. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., head to Fondren and the Rainbow plaza for a screening of "Crude: The Real Price of Oil," at Rainbow's …
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National
FBI Arrests 'Rogue Officers'
The FBI arrested four men, including two former metro police officers and one acting Hinds County Sheriff's deputy, Oct. 2 on charges of conspiracy to commit an offense against the …
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Graham Attorney: No Choice but to Let Jury Decide
As I reported earlier today, the Mississippi auditor and attorney general sued Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham over alleged double-dipping. Graham, they say, was running a private business while on …
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[Artist to Watch] Noo Noo: Doing it All
When talking about the big names in rap today, you'll hear names like Jay-Z, T.I. or Lil' Wayne. Rap is a male-dominated genre, and it isn't often that ladies get …
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Beatty Street's Secrets
Just outside the declared limits of downtown, near where the water starts at the Hinds-Rankin line, Mary Harden mans the cash register in Beatty Street Grocery.
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Health Care
HHS Denies Mississippi's Plan for Exchange
Commissioner Mike Chaney said he feels the Obama administration has betrayed him for denying the state's application.
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Homeland Insecurity
Award-winning reporter Eileen Lou Harrist wrote this story a year ago for The Gambit Weekly, the alternative newsweekly in New Orleans:
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Where In The World?
For most of us, the geography of the winemaking world doesn't extend past California, France, Italy and Australia. Those are the big boys, so why would anyone look for wine …
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Person of the Day
Don Barrett
Attorney Don Barrett is no stranger to taking on big-name, big-budget opponents in the courtroom.
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Edible Gifts
While I prefer to make "food" gifts, I don't always have time. I have finally accepted the fact that it's perfectly OK to let other people do the work for …
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Nina Parikh
Nina Flaminiano Parikh isn't the sort of name you'd expect for the associate manager of the Mississippi Film Office, but that's what the 30-year-old answers to (even after April 10 …
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Theresa Kennedy
"I want to create my life, not just to let it happen," she says. "That's a lot of the reason that I am as involved as I am."
