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Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba has established a task force to evaluate Jackson Police Department's longstanding …

• April 6, 2018

Mike Espy is also Mississippi's first African-American elected to Congress since Reconstruction. He confirmed Friday …

• April 6, 2018

Big K.R.I.T. performs at Hal & Mal's on Thursday, April 5, 2018.

• April 6, 2018

CyHi the Prynce performed music from his latest project “No Dope on Sundays” at Hal …

• April 6, 2018

Childish Major was also an opener for the “Heavy is The Crown” tour before headliners …

• April 6, 2018

Hattiesburg native Josh Waters opened the sold-out Big K.R.I.T. concert on Thursday, April 5, 2018, …

• April 6, 2018

Big K.R.I.T.’s “Heavy Is The Crown” tour made its way to Hal & Mal’s on …

• April 6, 2018

Big K.R.I.T. Live at Hal and Mal

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• April 6, 2018

Poor Treatment of Local Media Comes to Head at Sanders, Lumumba Town Hall

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders travelled from one predominantly black city to the next on Wednesday for public appearances in commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

At the town-hall conversation between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba commemorating Martin …

• April 6, 2018

Emily Allison

Colorful anime art adorns the bright lime walls at HardRocs Tattoo & Piercing in Brandon, some framed and some taped. Drawings from tattoo artist Emily Riffle, who goes by Emily …

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• April 6, 2018

MADDRAMA, a student performance troupe at Jackson State University, recently won nine awards at the …

• April 6, 2018

MADDRAMA Wins Awards, Hinds One-Stop Center at Metrocenter and New USM Scholarship

MADDRAMA, a student performance troupe at Jackson State University, recently won nine awards at the 82nd National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Conference at Dillard University in New Orleans.

Mississippi Court: Woman Has Parent Rights in Same-Sex Split

Mississippi's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman has parental rights to a 6-year-old boy born to her ex-wife when the two were married, in a case watched by gay …

Chris Strickland (left) brought the appeal, challenging a lower court decision that an anonymous sperm …

• April 5, 2018

AP: Record Number of Women File to Run for US House Seats

The number of women running for the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies …

A surge of women into this year's midterm elections had been expected since the Women's …

• April 5, 2018

Bernie Sanders, Mayor Lumumba Have Campaign-Like Chat on MLK Anniversary

Cries of "Bernie 2020!" accented the conversation between U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at a town hall on economic justice 50 years to the night since …

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders came to Jackson to have a conversation with Mayor Chokwe Antar …

• April 5, 2018