There was a time, in the early-to-mid 1960s when Archie Manning thought he would probably play football, basketball and/or baseball at Sunflower Junior College (now Mississippi...
JULY 31, 1874 Credit: The Library of Congress Patrick F. Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Healy was the first African...
Eli Manning, an All American at Ole Miss, will be inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Saturday night. (Photo: Ole Miss Athletics) Two-time Super...
JULY 30, 1866 Credit: Harper's Weekly, Library of Congress Black men, many of them veterans of the Civil War, were killed in New Orleans when they...
State Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, talks with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance about whirlwind events surrounding the Democratic presidential nomination. Johnson is a delegate...
The opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics are tonight in Paris, and my thoughts immediately go back to the only time I covered the Olympic Games,...
ROLLING FORK — For years, the fate of a project known as the Yazoo Pumps has bounced back and forth in a game of political ping...
If you think it’s a slow time in the world of sports, don’t tell that to Xander Schauffele, the Summer Olympics, the Mississippi Sports Hall of...
JULY 24, 1919 A white mob, many of them World War I veterans, began assaulting random Black Americans after a white woman was allegedly attacked in...
JULY 22, 1939 Jane Bolin Credit: Wikipedia Jane Bolin became the first Black female judge in the United States when she was sworn in as a...
