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Former Jackson State President William Bynum Jr. contended in a lawsuit that a clause in his contract allowed him to remain employed at the university as a full professor. A judge disagreed.

Online police records show Hale was booked into the DeSoto County detention facility, posted a bond of $1,500 and that he has been released from custody. The online records also say that this is Hale’s first DUI charge.

The ruling stems from a federal three-judge panel’s order in May 2025 that determined Mississippi lawmakers did not give Black voters in three areas of the state a fair chance to elect voters of their choice and ordered the state to conduct special elections for the new districts.

People traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, for a weekend rally called “All Roads Lead to the South.” Many said they are concerned that Black voting rights are threatened by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

A new mural provides a bright and cozy spot for children to read outdoors at Madison Avenue Elementary School.

Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon depicts elephants around a campfire, with a big one saying Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson has had a “reign of terror,” scaring the smaller elephants.

Mississippi has a long history of Jim Crow voter suppression and has often faced litigation and federal court intervention with its redistricting.

Mississippi has lost nearly 70,000 public school students since the state’s student population started its downturn in 2013.  The vast majority of Mississippi’s school districts, 113, have seen enrollment declines — some as much as 40%. Some experts link the falling public school enrollment to the state’s overall population loss.  If districts continue to lose […]

Charles Rugg, who has died at 94, was a Belhaven coach who was widely admired in the college basketball world.

Efforts to eliminate the majority-Black district of Mississippi’s Bennie Thompson might have been abandoned this year by Gov. Tate Reeves due to redistricting complexities.