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The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers.

The impact of the Supreme Court decision is almost certain to trickle down to the state and local level, as the decision significantly narrows how courts can require states to account for race in redistricting.

A federal trial has been delayed until Aug. 3 for Stephen Spencer Pittman, who is charged in setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue in January.

Civil rights icon Brenda Travis was jailed at 15 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter in McComb and leading protests. She died Sunday at age 81.

Factors leading to community resistance of data centers include the depletion of water systems, pollution and the increased energy costs to consumers.

House Democratic Leader Robert Johnson of Natchez says that as states across the nation become embroiled over racial and partisan gerrymandering of voting districts, he believes now they’ll know “what it’s like to be in Mississippi” with its long struggles with voting rights and drawing district lines. What other states see as unprecedented political battle, Johnson said, “We call Tuesday.”

The ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case places Mississippi and other Southern states at the center of a national partisan and racial political battle over redistricting.

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.