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Civil Rights
Group Seeks Landmark Status for Emmett Till's Chicago Home
A preservation group wants the Chicago home where Emmett Till once lived to receive landmark status.
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Crime
Fellow Inmate Convicted for Murder of Choctaw Activist in Neshoba Jail
On Thursday, more than two years after activist Rexdale Henry of the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans turned up dead in a Neshoba County Jail cell, a jury found Justyn …
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Economy
Analysis: Mississippi Budget Practices Receive Mixed Grades
A nonpartisan group that evaluates state government budget practices is giving mostly midlevel marks to Mississippi.
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Person of the Day
Ito Smith
Ito Smith ran for 150 yards and scored two touchdowns to propel Southern Mississippi to a 43-34 victory over Rice on Saturday.
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Environment
US Cities, States Defy Trump, Still Back Paris Climate Deal
A group of U.S. states, cities, businesses and universities said Saturday they are still committed to curbing global warming even as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is walking away from …
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City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
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City & County
Slain Activist's Family Sees Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The family of a man killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan received a private preview Friday of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum that is opening next month.
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Politics
Staying Vigilant as Veterans' Scars Heal
Soldiers and military personnel from almost every U.S. conflict in the last 70 years packed into a small auditorium in the G.V. Sonny Montgomery Medical Center on Thursday, Nov. 9, …
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Education
USM/MSU Boeing Research, UMMC Translational Research Center and Millsaps Windgate Visual Arts Center
Millsaps College hosted a ground-breaking ceremony for the Windgate Visual Arts Center on the west side of the campus today, Friday, Nov. 10, at 11 a.m.
