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Homegrown recording studios help musicians carry Mississippi’s musical legacy...
Artists Dear Silas, Sam Mooney and more find their voice in recording studios across the state Photo by Jim Beaugez Bronson Tew, left, and Matt Patton, co-owners of Dial Back Sound in Water Valley...
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A tale of two Southern states and their Confederate battle cross flags
MS.govPrior to 2001, both Georgia and Mississippi faced constant battles over the state flag. Georgia’s governor pushed legislators to change the flag while Mississippi put it to a vote. The debate...
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Hosemann says session to resume on May 18, business as usual plus pandemic...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaDelbert Hosemann during the opening day of the legislative session in the Mississippi House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday,...
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Mississippi to receive millions in education CARES Act funds
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaVicksburg Warren School District employees prepare to make food deliveries to students in the school district Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The...
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Poll: Mississippians marginally favor keeping current state flag, but support...
Rogelio V. Solis/Associated PressIn this April 25, 2020 photograph, a small Mississippi state flag is held by a participant during a drive-by “re-open Mississippi” protest past the Governor’s Mansion,...
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Legislature taking precautions after employee tests positive for COVID-19
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaThe materials used to collect specimen from those potentially infected with COVID-19 is shown in a mock COVID-19 specimen collection at the...
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Legislators likely can avoid once feared double digit budget cuts
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayLawmakers during the legislative session at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, May 28, 2020. Legislative leaders on Monday said Mississippi’s state budget for the...
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Legislature poised to continue streak of passing bills restricting abortions
Jordan Uhl, FlickrA protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 about an abortion restrictions law passed in Texas. The Mississippi Legislature is on the verge of passing a proposal to limit...
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University of Mississippi to relocate Confederate monument
Bruce Newman, Oxford EagleThe Confederate monument at the Circle at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford. The Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning has voted to relocate the...
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Athletes ask NCAA to ban college baseball regionals in Mississippi until...
Kelly Donoho/Mississippi State athleticsThis was the scene at an April 27 game at Dudy Noble Field when Mississippi State hosted Georgia. Expect a similar scene, with less sunshine, when State plays...
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Sports pressure shouldn’t be needed to inspire leaders to change the state...
MS.govMississippi state flag So, the NCAA announced on Friday that Mississippi teams can no longer host college baseball and basketball regionals until the state changes its flag. That’s a big deal....
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State Auditor alleges Department of Education manipulated graduation rates
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayCourtney Webster, center, is surrounded by family members after Greenville High School’s graduation Thursday, May 21, 2020. For the past decade, the Mississippi...
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‘Glorified shrine of the Confederacy’: UM students, faculty fume over...
What began as a day that felt victorious for everyone who wanted the Confederate monument relocated from its prominent position at the University of Mississippi quickly turned confusing and...
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‘The garden is a container of memory’: Curator who restored Welty Garden is...
Photo by Sherry LucasSusan Haltom, the garden curator who’s been with the Welty Garden for decades and the co-author of “One Writer’s Garden,” retires at the end of June. Droplets bead on yellow...
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Lawsuits attempt to put Mississippi in mainstream on felony voting,...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaVoters cast their votes at Jackson Fire Station #22 during the midterm elections Tuesday, November 6, 2018. In the coming days, the Legislature...
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Leaders consider letting Mississippi voters decide fate of the state flag....
Supporters of the state flag rally at the Mississippi State Capitol in 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) Let voters decide. This has long been a refrain from many elected state leaders when...
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Mike Bianco: State flag debate ‘bigger than baseball, bigger than hosting...
Ole Miss athletic communicationsOxford-University Stadium has often hosted NCAA Regionals. That may be in the past. Mike Bianco, the winningest active coach in the three major sports in the SEC, is a...
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No more C-USA post-season events in Miss. until the state flag is changed
conferenceusa.comThe 2019 Conference USA Tournament brough $2.1 million to the Gulf Coast. Mississippi has hosted the last six Conference USA Baseball Tournaments and 11 of the league’s tournaments...
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Mississippi COVID-19 hospitalization rate ranks second in nation amid state...
PixabayThe state is seeing the nation’s second highest rate of current hospitalizations per Covid-19 case, in addition to being tied for the second highest per capita hospitalization rate. The two...
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Let’s re-visit Michael Jordan’s version of ‘I’m coming home, they started...
si.comMichael Jordan’s stab at baseball did not get a glowing review from Sports Illustrated in 1994. This past Sunday night, we reached the part in Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance in which Jordan – at...
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