Recent Commentary
Editor's Note
The Dilemma of America’s Dad
If "America's dad" is a rapist, doesn't that mean we've all been living a lie? What other lies have we been telling ourselves? What truths are we afraid to know?
Civil Rights
Forgive Us Our Debts
I've never understood people who are incapable of seeing that, to paraphrase President Obama, they—even with their skills, intelligence and persistence—aren't wholly responsible for their destinies.
Civil Rights
Oppression and the Power of Elections
University of Mississippi's decision to lower the state flag shows that there is power in symbols and a tremendous amount of power in people coming together to demand that symbols ...
Civil Rights
On Education, Privilege and Empowerment
Payton Head, student body president at the University of Missouri, my alma mater, recently wrote that while walking through campus Sept. 11, a pickup truck full of white guys screamed ...
Editor's Note
Stonewall, Jackson and the Little Moments that Matter Most
I've had more encounters with police in the three and a half years I've lived in Mississippi than ever before in my life.
Civil Rights
Blackness, Leisure and an American Dream
Everyone was sold on the American Dream. The trouble is, when scenes like McKinney play out, it's hard to make a case that black people who bought into the dream ...
Civil Rights
On Punishment
An attorney friend put it best when she told me that equality and progress can't just mean taking the same broken system that victimizes black and brown folks and applying ...
Editor's Note
An Open Letter to Our Teachers
I don't doubt for a second that there are bad teachers who just show up to collect a paycheck, but I can't recall ever having a teacher who I didn't ...
Recent Stories
Business
Is the Payday Soon Over for Payday Lenders?
De'Keither Stamps says that the more money people spend on payday-loan and check-cashing fees, the less they have to help bolster the City's treasury by purchasing goods and services.
City & County
Eubanks Creek: A Step Closer to Relief
Residents along a section of Eubanks Creek in Fondren are a step closer to getting relief from flooding and high-cost flood insurance. In the past year, developers, architects and city ...
City & County
War Against Potholes: The City Battles Nature, Resources
To people in Jackson, who have to battle blown tires, crooked front-end alignments and nearly drowned children, the distinction between potholes, sinkholes and utility cuts are meaningless.
City & County
Future of Uber in Jackson Safe For Now?
The fate of Uber is clearer after the Jackson City Council voted 3 to 1 for a set of regulations designed to address public safety and other issues for transportation-network ...
Business
Stamps: No New Payday Loan, Check Cashing, Liquor, Pawn Stores
A Jackson city councilman wants to put a halt to the expansion of payday loan stores, check cashers and liquor stores in the capital city.
City & County
JPD: Carjackings Up, Thieves May Be Targeting Women
The Jackson Police Department is conducting investigations into six cases involving perpetrators committing the crimes of carjacking, armed robbery of an individual and auto theft. The suspects, on foot or ...
City & County
Map of Jackson Sites Where Lead Levels Exceeded Action Levels
On Jan. 28 Mississippi state health officials notified the City of Jackson that it had found lead in 22.4 percent of the 58 Jackson homes it sampled in July 2015. ...
City & County
The People Who Want to Save Farish Street
A businessman is pointing to his experience redeveloping what he called a "ghetto" in his home city of Denver to assure Jackson officials that he can jumpstart Farish Street, the ...
City & County
Jackson Has Long Been at High Risk for Lead Poisoning
Thirteen Jackson homes may have had higher-than-actionable levels of lead in their water last summer, but officials are assuring the public that the city is no Flint, Mich.
City & County
City: Water Safe to Drink Despite High Lead Levels, 100 More Homes to Be Tested
Some 100 additional homes in Jackson will be tested for high levels of lead, city and state health officials said today.
Blog Entries
- UN Working Group That Came to Jackson Files Report on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia, Afrophobia
- Bert Case, Legendary Jackson TV Newsman, Dies
- Mayor Yarber Proclaims: It's School Choice Week in Jackson
- Roy McMillan, Anti-Abortion Gadfly, Dead
- Almost 100,000 Mississippians Sign Up for HealthCare.gov
- Airport Authority Hires Same Lobbyist the City of Jackson is Using
- MSSC Justice Jim Kitchens Files for Re-Election
- Jackson City Council Joins Gov. Phil Bryant, AG Jim Hood in Condemning Stokes' Comments About Throwing Objects at Police Cars from Suburbs
- Wild Dogs Kill 6 Zoo Animals, Injure 2 Geese
- City OKs IMS Engineers to Oversee 1 Percent Tax Projects
- Megyn Kelly, Ashley Madison, 'Compton' and Booty Lead Mississippi Google Traffic
- Presley: Net-Metering Rules Pass Public Service Commission
- City: Avoid Woodrow Wilson if Possible Due to Water Main Break
- Blue Bell Ice Cream Coming Back to Mississippi Dec. 21
- Terry Mayor Nicholson Pleads Guilty, Resigns
- Moody's Downgrades Jackson's Debt; Outlook Negative
- Robert Gray's Mom: I Always Wanted Him to Run for Gov.
- Mill Street Gets $3 Million Surprise from MDOT's Dick Hall
- Haley Barbour Comes Out Against Initiative 42, 42A
- Survey: Yarber Administration Seeks Input on Open Data
- 540: A New 'Ultra Lounge' on Farish St. Just in Time for JSU Homecoming
- Election Official: Initiative 42 So Confusing Many Won't Vote on It
- Petition Drive to Remove Confederate Emblem from State Flag OK'd
- JATRAN Rebranding Survey Under Way
- City Official: Burke's Outlet Coming to Jackson
- AG Jim Hood Again Hits Back Against GOP Opponent Mike Hurst On Mendenhall Scandal
- AG Jim Hood: Defense of Same-Sex Adoption Ban 'Procedural'
- City: Water 'Slightly Brown' But Deemed Safe to Drink
- City Passes a $382 Million Budget Plan
- Dan Aykroyd: Mississippi Gun Violence Exceeeds Most of the Entire Western World
- Mayor Yarber Issues Statement on Best Buy Closing
- $14.6 Million Tax-Forfeited Property Sale Starts Aug. 27
- Unofficial Totals: Sykes Beats Begley, McGowan Over Stringfellow, McQuirter Shakes Archie; Coleman Wins
- City Council Offers $7 Million in Cuts to Avoid Furlough, Tax Hikes
- Blue Bell Ice Cream is Back But Not to Mississippi Just Yet
- Election Night Parties
- City Going on Well Water After South Jackson Water Line Break
- City: New Water Billing System to Come Online
- Jonathan Sanders Story: Clarion-Ledger He-Was-No-Angeled the Black Horse-and-Buggy Driver Killed by White Cop
- 2 Yazoo County Judges Quit Doing Marriages All Together
- City Council Recap: Uber, Bongs and Food Trucks
- #RachelDolezal's Jackson Ties
- Clarion-Ledger Publisher, 3 Employees Depart
- Deja is Cool!!!!
- Kenny Stokes Wants a Bridge Named for Frank Melton
- Yarber Still Beating Emergency Declaration Horse, PR Campaign
- Tonight: Nikki Giovanni Speaks at Jackson State
- How Did Stephen Gene Davenport Die?
- Pothole Report for 4/16/2015: What's the City Fixing Today?
- Pothole Report for 4/14/2015: What's the City Fixing Today?
- Pothole Report for 4/13/2015: What's the City Fixing Today?
- Yarber Pulls A HOC-Style Trick From His Sleeve, Declares State of Emergency
- Lt. Gov. Reeves Blasts Dems for Blocking GOP Tax Breaks
- Whitwell is In for MS01 Congress Race
- Joce Pritchett, Cristen Hemmins to Take Aim at GOP Incumbents
- 3 More Rankin Countians Sentenced for Hate Crime Against Black Jackson Man
- Familiar Jackson Faces Still Lining Up for State Democratic Primary
- City: Public Works Director Orders Temporary Halt to New Water Meter Installations
- Suddenly Pro-Woman, the AFA Blasts '50 Shades' Flick as Degrading
- Jarvis Dortch to Run for House Seat
- Why Stop At the Bible? More Christian Symbols for Mississippi
- Paper Tigers: The Jackson #Napkin War Has Only Begun
- JSU Slashes Prices for Alcorn, Southern Hoops Games
- Second MDOC Prisoner Dies in As Many Weeks
- Say it With Ya Chest: Kevin Hart is Coming to Jackson
- Jackson Advocate: Kenny Stokes Going After His Old Ward 3 Council Seat After All
- Hinds GOP Plays 'Obama Card' Against Carson in Ward 1 Race
- LaRita Cooper-Stokes Resigns. What's Next for Ward 3?
- Rep. Bennie Thompson Wants Hearings on Deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Others
- Gov. Bryant Gives Dr. Aaron Shirley His Day, Keeps Flags Full-Mast
- Jackson NAACP: Hinds Elex Commish Connie Cochran Should Resign
- Roger Wicker to Lead NRSC, but For How Long?
- Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner to Posthumously Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Reeves, Bryant Giving McCrory Donations to Charity 1 comment
- MDOC's Chris Epps Resigns; Agency Looks for Temp Commish
- 5 Things I Wonder About this Election Day
- Carroll Waller, Former Mississippi First Lady, Dies
- Rep. Andy Gipson Caves on Gay Marriage; Our Work Here is Done.
- Ashby Foote in Ward 1 Contest
- Charles Barbour Joins Jackson Ward 1 Race
- Dem U.S. Senate Hopeful Travis Childers Defends Anti-Amnesty Pledge 1 comment
- SCOTUS Action Spurs LGBT Activists in Mississippi
- NPR: Eric Holder to Announce Resignation
- T.I. "The King" Gets The Key (to the City)
- Richard Sellers Latest Entry to Ward 1 Race
- TedxJackson Speakers Announced
- Report: Jackson State a Top 20 HBCU Value
- Federal Judge Dismisses Oakley Training School Lawsuit
- Amile Wilson Throws Hat in Jackson Ward 1 Ring
- State Fair Music Lineup Announced
- Dow Jones: Miss. Offers Little Bang for Bucks
- Lee Vance Named JPD Chief
- WLBT: Quentin Whitwell Retiring Oct. 31
- Report: Ole Miss Should Rethink Symbols, Create Top Diversity Post
- AFA: Cartoon's Depiction of Black Jesus 'Blasphemous' 3 comments
- Judge June Hardwick: I Haven't Quit or Been Fired
- True the Vote Files Affidavits to Support Claims of Fraud in #MSSEN
- Reeves Makes Final 1% Sales Tax Commish Pick
- James Brown Biopic 'Get On Up' Screening Set for Malco Grandview July 27
- Voter ID Rhetoric Inconsistent With GOP Reax to Primary Allegations
- Yarber Picks 2 for Sales-Tax Commission
- Childers Comes Out Swinging Vs. Cochran
- MS Supremes Tell Hood 'No' on Byrom, Throw Out Man's Death Sentence 2 comments
- Study: Miss., the South Most Corrupt in Nation
- Ron Paul Backs Chris McDaniel for #mssen
- USDOJ: Hinds County Jail Under Investigation
- Mark Mayfield, Charged in Blogger Photo Scandal, Long a Cochran Foe
- McDaniel Questions Cochran's Honor in Open Letter
- Lil Boosie Hits a Snag in Gulfport; Alsina Picks Lambo Over Jacktown
- August Alsina, Jackson Promoters in War of Words Over Concert Cancellation
- JSU Tragedy 'Widely Forgotten' But Not at JSU
- After Speculation, Crisler (No, Not That One) Announces for Ward 6
- Precious Martin, Well-Known Attorney, Killed in ATV Accident
- Hendrix 1st to Officially Announce Ward 6 Bid 1 comment
- Bay St. Louis Latest to Recognize LGBT Contributions
- Gov. Bryant Calls Special Session for Storm Relief
- JFP Honored for Public Service, Commentary, Courts Reporting and Features
- WLBT: JSU Bus Catches Fire in Alabama
- Rep. Thompson: Gov. Phil Bryant Rejected Obamacare "Just Because a Black Man Created It"
- Want to Help Tornado Victims? Here's How.
- Everyday People Everyday: Two #JxnMayor Theme Songs
- Will Lumumba Get a Boost from Women?
- Why is a Canton PAC Interested in Jackson's Mayoral Election?
- City Warns of Sewer Overflows in Parts of Jackson
- Jackson Preps for High Water as Rez Opens Floodgates
- Tillman: Removed Lumumba Mural Not 'Authorized' or 'Permitted'
- Rukia Lumumba Shocked, Hurt by Removal of Mural Honoring Her Father
- Chokwe A. Lumumba #JxnMayor Endorsements 1 comment
- Tony Yarber #JxnMayor Endorsements
- ACLU: Miss. Passes Law That Could Open Door to Discrimination 2 comments
- AG Hood Wants Explanation in Byrom Death-Sentence Reversal
- Gulf Coast News Anchor Wants LGBTs to Take 'Gaycation' 1 comment
- Moak on the Closing of Harrah's Tunica Casino
- ACLU Responds to Drug-Testing-the-Poor Bill Signing
- Two Booted Off Mayor's Ballot
- Money Talks/Where are Yarber and Barrett-Simon's Economic Impact Statements? 15 comments
- Harassment Suit Against JSU's Vivian Fuller Dismissed
- Jim Hood Orders 2 Executions then Defends U.S. Human Rights in Geneva 10 comments
- Chapman, Priester, Yarber File Paperwork
- West Jackson Hosts Mayoral Forum Thursday
- Bennie Thompson is Backing Priester for Mayor, but Why? 4 comments
- Francis P. Smith Qualifies for Jackson Mayor's Race
- Chokwe Antar Lumumba Caps Off Crazy Day of Mayoral Announcements
- Melvin Priester Jr. Announces Bid for Mayor's Seat
- Regina Quinn on Jackson Mayor's Race: "I'm in." 1 comment
- Looks Like Melvin Priester Jr.'s in the Jackson Mayor's Race
- Coroner: No Lumumba Autopsy Planned
- Lumumba Services to Take Place Next Week 1 comment
- Chamber Names Sales-Tax Commission Picks 1 comment
- Happy Black Hist... Ahem, Voter ID Month!
- Jackson Advocate: LaRita Cooper-Stokes Running for Hinds Judge
- Lawmakers Solve Huge Problems Facing the State by Adding 'In God We Trust' to Seal
- Finally, Jackson Getting New Belgium Beers
- Thompson Applauds House Farm Bill Vote
- The Death Penalty for Statutory Rape? 1 comment
- Legislature Quiet on Immigration, Abortion
- Mumme's the Word on New Belhaven Football Coach
- Rep. Dixon Proposes Castle Doctrine Changes
- SCOTUS Sides with Mississippi AG Hood
- Whole Foods Announces Jackson Grand Opening 2 comments
- Fire Blazes in Downtown Jackson
- Lumumba to Legislators: "Feel good, be at home"
- A New Wonk Blog for Mississippi
- Forbes Features HOPE's Bill Bynum
- For Some Reason, Phil Bryant Thinks Feds Want to Educate Mississippi's Kids 3 comments
- ACLU: Couple Researching Mississippi Stereotypes Are Racially Profiled in Mississippi
- AG JIm Hood Clarifies Open Carry Law
- City Lifts Boil Water Notice
- Ross Barnett Rez Name-Change Effort Certain to Draw Racist Vitriol 7 comments
- Stokes a No-Show as Board Moves to Fix Jail
- IOlé, Miss.!
- Will New Hinds Supes Depose Graham, Stokes?
- Federal, State Indictments Rain Down in DMR Probe
- MoJo: Chris McDaniel Spoke at Confederate Ball; McDaniel Denies: I Was at an ALEC Event 19 comments
- The Deweycare Government Health-Care Takeover in Full Swing
- Mike Chaney: BCBS, HMA Reach Deal
- Lucky Town Clears Zoning Hurdle, Craft Beermaking Returns to Jackson
- Will Jackson Get Boost from $1 trillion in Black Spending?
- Report: "Extreme Concern" Persists at Henley-Young
- Belhaven, Fondren on House Burglary Alert 3 comments
- At Least Jackson Media Cares About One Murder Victim 48 comments
- Sen. Chris McDaniel to Announce Beginning of End of Political Career
- Josh Marks Memorial Planned; Service to Highlight Mental Illness
- Missouri, Stop Putting Secession Ideas in Mississippi's Head
- Miss. Parole Board: 70 Days, 3 Chairmen
- Miss. Breaks Good, Ranks Low for Methiness
- Meridian Fights The Power Against Kemper, Too
- Church Gives to Hinds Dem Hopeful Willie Robinson: Legal?
- Supes Continue Raiding Byram-Clinton Corridor Fund 3 comments
- Hinds Dems Throw Down Tomorrow
- Roger Wicker is listening -- but only to what he wants to hear
- Jerry Hopkins Drops out of Hinds 4 Race, Maldonado Takes Runoff Spot
- Barbara Dunn's Reign of Copy Fee Terror Over? 2 comments
- Kemper Not the Power Plant of Future
- The Complete Guide to Where You Can Vote in Tomorrow's Hinds County Supervisor's Primaries
- Groups: It's OK for the Gay to Stay
- Cochran Throwing Salt in GOP Hopefuls' Game?
- Federal Wildlife Refuge Planned Along Pearl River
- With Jackson Budget OK, Zoo Hopes to Reverse Accreditation Denial
- James Shearer, JSU Student, Mourned; Vigil Planned
- La. Parish Council Rejects 'One Lake' 2 comments
- Drink Up, the Brown Water's Fine
- Bryant to Troops: No Being Gay on State Property 4 comments
- Rep. Angela Cockerham Joins Money Committees
- Reeves Attacks Bill Minor for Attacking ALEC
- UMMC, Insurer Reach Deal
- McMillin Resigning from Parole Board; Replacement Tapped
- Hinds GOP Also Sets Primary for Supe Slots
- Hinds Dems Set Primary for Board Slots
- Judge Extends Open Carry Ban Until July 12
- AG Hood Moves to Lift Open-Carry TRO 1 comment
- Hinds Judge Blocks Open Carry Law, For Now
- Miss. House Approves $840m Medicaid Bill
- Keep Calm. It's Just the Police Shooting. 2 comments
- At Long Last, Gov. Bryant Calls Medicaid Special Session
- GOP, Dems: Still Bangin' Over Medicaid
- Local Person Charged in 2nd Buttocks Injection Death
- Troubled Miss. Prison Gets New Warden
- It's Official: Flaggs is Outta Here
- MSGOP Issues Anti-Obamacare Resolution
- Mississippi Dems Hang on to Mayor Seats, Turn Others Blue
- Quentin Whitwell Running for Mayor 'On the Low'? 11 comments
- Bennie Thompson Backs Lumumba, Links Lee to GOP
- Gulf Biz Smacked with $1m Fine for Mucking Wetlands
- Lumumba's Close Call with Disbarment 3 comments
- More About Lumumba's Top Donors 1 comment
- Lessons from Last Night's Mayoral Whatever That Was 1 comment
- Where the Election Night Parties At?
- Who's Giving to Lumumba?
- Death Row Prisoner Manning Gets a Stay
- Procedure Set for Hinds Dist. 2 Special Election
- Is Miss. About to 'Lynch' an Innocent Man?
- Mississippi Denies Manning's Death Appeal
- I'm Tired of These Mothaflippin Snakes (and Exorbitant Copy Fees) in This Mothaflippin Clerk's Office!!! 3 comments
- The Big-Money GOP Donors at Gunn's Private Party
- Sen. Wicker Gets Toxic Letter 1 comment
- Miss. GOP Applauds Obama Medicaid Action
- Only Mississippian Convicted of Voter Fraud in Recent Memory Dies
- Some Dumbo Shot an Elephant in Tupelo
- On Final Day of Session, a Million Statements
- Ole Miss Dumps 'Col. Reb'; Students Predictably Outraged
- Charter School Bill Passes. What Took So Long?
- Fourth Time's A Charm for Death of Medicaid
- More Fallout from Tenn. Audit of JPS' Gray?
- Hello? Is it Me(dicaid) You're Looking for?
- Bryant Ed-Reform Bill Pwned by House
- DOR Not Coming to Downtown Jackson 3 comments
- Musgrove Declares Himself a LGBT Ally 1 comment
- Bryant Sits Down With Hospitals on Funding 1 comment
- Stewart Mans Up, Apologizes to Molpus
- Dems: GOP Tries 'Brinkmanship on Medicaid' 3 comments
- Why Did Johnny Lee Butts Die?
- Don't Mess With Miss. 1 comment
- Doug Anderson Resigns Hinds Board 1 comment
- Black and Brown Vote Suppression in Scott County?
- Assault Rifles: Only at Walmart 48 comments
- Meredith Denied Ole Miss Enrollment 50 Years Ago Today
- Diss by That Channel Your Cat Watches Draws Our Ire
- What's the Tea Party Sending JFP?
- Jesse Jackson Disses Sag Ban 1 comment
- Abortion Clinic Not on the 'Brink' of Closure 2 comments
- Death Rower's Reprieve Plea Denied
- A Condemned Man's Last Day...in a Press Release
- Utah Private Prison Firm Picks Up Mississippi Contracts
- Seven Dems Flip to GOP
- Feds Bust Pair for Hiring Undocumented Workers
- Gov. Bryant Signs Biz Bills
- Earle Banks to Run for State Supreme Court
- GOP Mad at Suggestion Mississippi is Anti-Gay
- Rev. Jesse Jackson an Honorary Hinds Deputy
- AG Lambastes Sunshine Bill
- House Unveils Voting Maps
- Another Charter Schools Bill Killed
- In 2-1 Vote, PSC Lets Kemper Move Forward
- Immigration Bill's Fate Rests with Senate Dem
- Arrest Made in JSU Student's Murder
