Senate Elections Chairman Jeremy England tells Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance that he plans again in the 2025 legislative session to push for in-person...
JULY 18, 1965 Credit: Courtesy of the City of Anniston, Alabama Willie Brewster was heading home after working at a pipe foundry near Anniston, Alabama, when...
Special interest groups have donated at least $117,000 to candidates running in contested elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals so...
Mississippi Today has been recognized in multiple categories of the 2024 Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, a prestigious annual competition that recognizes the best...
JULY 16, 1944 In 2001, then-President Clinton awarded Irene Morgan Kirkaldy the Presidential Citizens Medal. Credit: Photo courtesy of Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. Irene Morgan,...
JULY 14, 1948 The Democratic National Convention adopted a platform that called for a federal anti-lynching law, the abolition of poll taxes and the desegregation of...
JULY 13, 1863 A white mob burned New York City’s Colored Orphan Asylum. The drawing above depicting that attack was featured in Harper’s Weekly on Aug....
JULY 12, 1976 U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan on House Judiciary Committee during Watergate hearings. Credit: Wikipedia U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, who first came to the forefront...
Shirley McDonald, an American Heart Association volunteer, instructs Jackson Public School administrative staff in CPR techniques during a training session on CPR and AED on Tuesday,...
GULFPORT — A federal judge on Tuesday appeared undecided over whether he should strike down a Mississippi election law that allows election officials to process mail-in...
