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How Clinton’s Eddie Cotton Jr. and Jarekus Singleton found the blues
Well-known in the blues scene in the U.S. and abroad, these Mississippi bluesmen have a lot more in common than just guitars. Growing up playing music in the Church of God in Christ isn’t the only...
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Two inimitable Mississippi voices never to be forgotten: Elvis and Jack Cristil
Mississippi State archivesTwo Mississippi icons: Jack Cristil, right, interviewed Elvis Presley at a 1956 fair in Tupelo. Sixty-four years ago, someone snapped a photograph of two Mississippi icons....
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‘We cannot breathe’: Top Democrat blasts party chairman Bobby Moak ahead of...
Rogelio V. Solis / Associated PressDemocratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Willie Simmons, a Mississippi transportation commissioner and one of the top Democratic elected...
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Watson asking attorney general whether Mississippi Legislature made it harder...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaVoters fill out ballots at Eudora Welty Library in Jackson during the Mississippi Senate runoff election Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Secretary of...
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State flag commission to meet with or without Gov. Tate Reeves’ appointees
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayHouse speaker Philip Gunn, from left, and Gov. Tate Reeves listen as Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann speaks at the start of Gov. Tate Reeves’ COVID-19 press conference at the...
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How much is your school district receiving in stimulus funds?
Mississippi’s school districts are facing unprecedented decisions about how and when to reopen this fall. They’re also facing decisions on how to spend an unprecedented amount of federal money...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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Mississippi could lose millions if residents don’t participate in 2020 Census
Earlier this year, Mississippi spent under a half of a million dollars to increase participation in the 2020 Census, the count of every living person that helps determine federal funding. To date,...
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Flag commission gets moving, without Gov. Reeves’ appointments
The commission lawmakers charged with putting a new Mississippi flag design before voters held its first meeting Wednesday, minus three members Gov. Tate Reeves failed to appoint by last week’s...
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Charles Evers, civil rights activist and politician, dead at 97
Charles Evers passed away this week. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis) Civil rights activist and politician Charles Evers, brother of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers, died Wednesday morning in...
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57 years ago, the late Stan Hindman, a renaissance man, made a play for the ages
Stan Hindman, a consensus All American for Ole Miss in 1965, died on July 15 in California. This was Nov. 3, 1963, a Saturday. Ole Miss was playing a rare afternoon football game against LSU in Baton...
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Rep. Earle Banks enters contentious race for Mississippi Democratic Party chair
State Rep. Earle Banks, D-Jackson, answers a question during a short debate in 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) UPDATE: A state Democratic Party executive committee meeting scheduled for Thursday...
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Gallery | Parents for Safe Schools Rally
INDIANOLA —About 30 parents, educators, students and community members gathered at Minnie Cox Park here for the Parents for Safe Schools Rally to protest schools reopening due to the rising number of...
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‘Petty, in-house political maneuvering’: Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak...
Bobby Moak said he will not seek reelection as chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak, who has led the party since...
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Gov. Reeves announces new social gathering restrictions, county mask mandates
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves Hours after the state health department reported the second most single-day cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves...
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Reeves, a week after deadline, makes appointments to state flag commission
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves answers questions during a press conference concerning the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Tate Reeves late Friday announced his three...
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‘Once in a Lifetime’: Mac McAnally’s new album puts hope, optimism on display
The Mississippi native and 10-time Country Music Association Musician of the Year recipient has lived to tell a story of gratitude and Mississippi roots. Even the simplest question can get sidelined...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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Photo Gallery: Aerial Delta by Rory Doyle
Photographer Rory Doyle shares a collection of photographs of the Mississippi Delta from above The first time I photographed the Mississippi Delta from above, I was actually working on a story about...
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Despite FDA warnings, Mississippi lawmaker pushes hydroxychloroquine for...
Julien Behal, PA WireDrugs in a pharmacy. An elected official is urging his constituents to sign a petition asking the governor to allow for the use of a controversial drug as a treatment for the...
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