JUNE 28, 1942 Joyce and Dorie Ladner discuss their roles in the civil rights movement. Credit: Library of Congress Dorie Ladner was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi....
Editor’s note: This article was written by Bryan Davis, publisher of The Enterprise-Tocsin newspaper in Indianola. It first published on June 21 and is republished below...
JUNE 27, 1991 Portrait of Thurgood Marshall Credit: Artist Betsy Graves Reyneau, which hangs in the National Gallery Portrait Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice on...
Mississippi Today hosted a members-only lunch and learn on Friday, June 14 with investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell and New York Times Local Investigative Reporting Fellowship Deputy...
A veteran of 15 years in the business of minor league baseball, Tennessee native Chris Harris is experiencing perhaps the most unusual year of his career....
New Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Mike Hurst talks with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance about November 2024 and 2027 elections, Medicaid expansion and party...
Members of the Mississippi Today newsroom will be in Clarksdale, Greenwood and Greenville conducting community listening sessions in June. The listening sessions are a way for...
For three rounds and 15 holes of the fourth round, Rory McIlroy made every single short putt he stood over. Then, he didn’t. And when McIlroy...
Post-pandemic absenteeism is declining in Mississippi schools, but kids are still missing more school than the pre-COVID days. At many schools, more than a third of...
JUNE 18, 1949 Ada Sipuel Fisher, right, is represented by attorneys Amos T. Hall, left, and Thurgood Marshall, center. Credit: Painting by Mike Wimmer that hangs...
