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Feds: Mississippi must replace all misspent or stolen welfare money with...
Anna WolfeMississippi Community Education Center’s downtown Jackson office, branded as Families First, was funded with millions of welfare dollars but filled its food pantry with donated food and on...
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Gov. Tate Reeves reopens tattoo parlors, casinos
JOHN FITZHUGH / SUN HERALD FILEA worker wipes down one of the slot machines before the ribbon cutting at the Island View Casino Resort’s new nonsmoking casino in Gulfport on Thursday, June 21, 2018....
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Mississippian Brett Orrison Takes His Love of Music to Austin and Beyond
Mississippian Brett Orrison takes his love of music to Austin and beyond The Mississippi Gulf Coast native is the first call for Jack White, Widespread Panic and other music acts Story by Jim...
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Working-class Mississippians were already living hand-to-mouth. Then along...
Michelle Duke (center), a bartender at Georgia Blue, and her coworker Amber Rials (left) face hiccups while trying to file an unemployment claim for Rials after both women were laid off amid the...
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Mississippi, with history of voter suppression, trailing most states in...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaSome Lawmakers say the Legislature should take steps this year to provide Mississippians safe voting options if the coronavirus pandemic is still...
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Analysis: Could legislative contempt for Gov. Tate Reeves create lasting...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaRep. Robert Johnson listens as arguments are made concerning Hester Jackson-McCray’s House of Representatives seat Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, at the...
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RIP: Gentle Ben Williams, who broke football color line at Ole Miss, became...
Ole Miss athleticsBen Williams, 74, was a remarkable football player and a history-making individual at Ole Miss. Here, he sacks Southern Miss quarterback Jeff Bower in a 1973 game. Ole Miss...
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The black American amputation epidemic: Black patients losing limbs at triple...
Ruddy Roye for ProPublicaDr. Foluso Fakorede in his clinic with a patient. This story was originally published by ProPublica. IT WAS A FRIDAY EVENING in the hospital after a particularly grueling week...
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Nonprofit officials spent $400,000 in welfare dollars to lobby state...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America Lawmakers and lobbyists gather in the Capitol during a recess of the special session of the Legislature in Jackson Tuesday, August 28, 2018....
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It was March 13 — about the time when Mississippi schools closed as the coronavirus pandemic spread — when the number of completed federal student aid applications in Mississippi started to plummet....
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Colleges and universities will resume “traditional operations” in the fall
Colleges and universities will resume “traditional operations” in fall of 2020, the Board of Trustees of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning voted on Thursday. The IHL Board, which oversees...
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There’s a story behind this 44-year-old photo of ‘Colonel Reb’ and Miss Ole Miss
Ole Miss athleticsBen Williams was elected Colonel Rebel in 1976. Here he is pictured with Barbara Biggs, who was Miss Ole Miss. Forty-four years later, the photograph seems about as non-controversial...
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How Gov. Tate Reeves picked Burl Cain, the controversial former Angola...
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs, left, confers with Burl Cain, the former warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, on May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Before Gov. Tate Reeves announced on...
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Mississippi-based documentary film company forges community connection...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today Chandler Griffin, co-founder of Blue Magnolia Films, left, helps Okolo Rashid gather footage for a documentary about Islamic culture, December 11, 2019. Late morning...
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As officials relax safety measures, Mississippi reports highest weekly...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayYvonne Moore collects specimen for COVID-19 testing outside of the Aaron E Henry Community Health Services Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, March 29, 2020. As...
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COVID-19 and unemployment in Mississippi: Weekly updates
Last updated May 21 As it has nationally, the COVID-19 pandemic has set off a record-setting rush of Mississippians filing for unemployment, a benefit paid for through employer taxes. In Mississippi,...
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Ravaged by Easter Sunday tornadoes, South Mississippi towns start rebuilding:...
Rev. Roy Oatis, pastor of James Hill Church, wears a surgical mask to protect himself from coronavirus, looking at piles of debris in front of what used to be his church. “I was at home hosting a...
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November election could put two black justices on the Supreme Court for first...
Mississippi Supreme Court African Americans make up 38 percent of the state’s population, but only 11 percent of the membership of the Mississippi Supreme Court. This November’s election could change...
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Jake Mangum is a fast-forward baseballer with his career currently on pause
Rick ClevelandJake Mangum answers reporters’ questions in a somber Mississippi State locker room after Bulldogs were eliminated from the College World Series last June. Today is Memorial Day. It’s...
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As officials relax safety measures, Mississippi reports highest weekly...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayYvonne Moore collects specimen for COVID-19 testing outside of the Aaron E Henry Community Health Services Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, March 29, 2020. As...
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