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Sameer Khan: Catalyst for Climate Change

Sameer Khan, a senior at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, led the Mississippi Youth Climate Strike Movement at the branch's first-ever youth rally.

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Glenn Boyce, Mississippi's former higher education commissioner, was named last week to lead the university. …

Ole Miss Faculty Seek Info from Trustees on Leader's Hiring

University of Mississippi professors want trustees to explain how they ended up selecting Glenn Boyce as the university's new leader.

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The aldermen's rejection comes even though Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten has repeatedly said his …

Mississippi City Rejects Mental Health Facility Despite Need

Officials in southwest Mississippi are denying a rezoning request for a mental health facility, despite complaints that the area is underserved.

The Fight for Family Goes On

After the Obergefell decision, Mississippi’s leaders "made sure to let us know we are still beneath the religious elite," Rev. Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear said. "We may have acquired marriage that day (in 2015), but we certainly didn't get equality."

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Texts show that former Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker served as an envoy between Donald …

Texts Reveal Volker's Role in Ukraine Talks, His BGR Role Still Unclear

The labyrinth of allegations swirling around Donald Trump administration's Ukraine dealings has only deepened since this newspaper's initial coverage of the Mississippi connections, direct and indirect, to the controversy last Thursday.

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Quinnetta Manning and her husband, Khadafy, were one two of 10 plaintiffs in a federal …

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Racist Policing in Madison County Target of New Federal Consent Decree

The Madison County Sheriff’s Department engaged in unconstitutional, racially discriminatory policing practices that disproportionately targeted black residents, a Southern District of Mississippi judge ruled last week.