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USM COVID-19 Oral Histories, Belhaven Online Scholarships and Millsaps Testing Waivers
Students at the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi recently put together a collection of oral histories concerning the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on people in the state.
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‘Collective Vision’: Lynch Street Repaving, Multi-Use Path Underway in West Jackson
A resurfaced Lynch Street and a new multi-use path in west Jackson officially got underway this week, Mississippi Central District Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons and Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba announced at a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday.
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Brandon Bolden
In this coronavirus world, nothing is the same, and that goes for sports, too. Most sports have been shut down since March as NCAA sports, NBA, NHL and others stopped playing.
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Mississippi Schools to Submit Annual Plans Amid Uncertainty
Mississippi school districts have just days to submit plans for this academic year to the state, but as the deadline nears and new cases of the coronavirus continue to rise, those plans keep changing.
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Priscilla Resser
Thirteen different organizations rejected Priscilla Resser before she received three consecutive offers to become Mississippi’s first physician assistant in the field of plastic surgery.
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Hinds County Receiving 'Dangerous' Seeds From China, Could Spread Diseases
Hinds County is among 15 counties in the state where people reported receiving unsolicited seeds from China, Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said yesterday.
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On December 29th, what MDOC referred to as a 'major disturbance" at South Mississippi Correctional …
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OPINION: An Open Letter to Governor Tate Reeves and MDOC
We write this open letter to demand accountability for neglecting the urgent crisis in Mississippi's prisons. We see your response, or lack thereof, as nothing more than the abuse of unchecked power with willful contempt for moral and humane solutions.
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Sheriff, Lawmaker Call Medical Marijuana Resolution 'Unsafe'
A Republican state representative, a sheriff and a Mississippi Board of Health official on Monday urged those who support some form of medical marijuana in Mississippi to vote for the more restrictive of the two proposals that will appear on the ballot in November.
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Bailey Avenue Up For Repaving As Jackson Paving Season 2020 Continues
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba yesterday announced the commencement of the re-pavement of Bailey Avenue from Bailey Avenue Bridge to Mayes Street as part of the 2020 paving-season projects.
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Ace Atkins
The Quinn Colson series by Oxford author Ace Atkins is being developed into a TV show on HBO.