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Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba (left) and Public Works Director Bob Miller (right) are advocating for …

• June 20, 2018

Hiring Ex-offenders: Mixed Statewide Results

Matthew Riley has been on the road a lot lately. As the state re-entry coordinator, Riley visited all 82 counties in Mississippi in the past nine months in search of …

Matthew Riley, the state re-entry coordinator, visited all 82 counties in Mississippi and found some …

• June 20, 2018

Whit Hughes: 'Ready to Fight' in Congress

In a recent interview with the Jackson Free Press, Whit Hughes did not veer far from the established Republican line his mentor Haley Barbour made popular—low taxes, scant regulations (including …

Whit Hughes has deep Republican establishment ties, but says he is running as a political …

• June 20, 2018

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• June 20, 2018

Trump Administration Pulls US Out of UN Human Rights Council

The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations' Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it "an organization that is not worthy of its name." It …

Nikki Haley, Trump's envoy to the U.N., said the U.S. had given the human rights …

• June 19, 2018

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Lawmakers Barred from Child Migrant Facility in Florida

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a "cover-up" after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had …

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a "cover-up" after officials denied him …

• June 19, 2018

White Supremacy Protesters Burn Confederate Flag Near Governor's Mansion

The charred remains of a replica Confederate Flag and a Mississippi flag lay on the sidewalk outside the Mississippi Governor's Mansion Monday afternoon in protest of white supremacy.

The Mississippi branch of the Poor People's Campaign burned a replica of the Confederate Flag …

• June 19, 2018

T-Shirt-Centered Celebrations at Swell-O-Phonic and Mississippi Museum of Art

The Mississippi Museum of Art will host a pop-up exhibition of shirts from local designers and artists during its "Museum After Hours" event in honor of National T-Shirt Day on …

The Mississippi Museum of Art will host a pop-up exhibition of shirts from local designers …

• June 19, 2018

Javier Peraza

Mississippi Coding Academies, a joint project between Innovate Mississippi and the Mississippi Development Authority, recently named Belhaven resident Javier Peraza as an instructor for two new coding classes that will …

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• June 19, 2018

'Papa! Papa!' Audio of Children Stokes Rage Over Separation

An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage in the growing …

An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying …

• June 19, 2018