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If FEMA disappears, as the Trump administration has proposed, what happens to your community, especially in Mississippi, after the next disaster, watchdog asks?

The YMCA closed in 2017 and has sat empty since. PraCon plans to convert the existing YMCA building into about 60 multifamily units and add approximately 100 more units in a new five story building.

The project, in partnership with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and The New York Times, features more than 70 interviews with former inmates and officers at the Rankin County jail.

Hattiesburg’s Pineview Little League All-Stars, an all-Black team, first won the 1977 Mississippi Little League championship at Biloxi. and went on to compete in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

State and national GOP strategist Henry Barbour runs through likely and confirmed candidates for Mississippi races this year and next, running down the ticket from U.S. Senate, stopping just shy of dog catcher.

Now 78, Blackmon has spent his life using the law to build Black political power in Mississippi: suing to dismantle at-large electoral districts, redrawing legislative maps to more than double Black representation in the Legislature and even engineering the state’s first majority-Black judicial subdistricts. 

Two months after state officials began investigating the deadly police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, the toddler’s family and a key eyewitness say nobody has reached out.

In a message Friday to the clerk of the House of Representatives, Guest wrote that he didn’t learn until Thursday of the three stock sales made on Dec. 16.

Downtown Jackson was one stop on the national “Wellness Day Tour” hosted by the African American Male Wellness Agency, and local organizers said over 450 people joined this year’s celebration. Volunteers and vendors worked in the sweltering 90-degree heat, offering tests for blood glucose and cholesterol levels, eye exams and education about prostate and colon cancers.