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JPS Shrinks as Charters Pull Students, Money

JPS superintendent talks about the need to consolidate schools.

A Chokwe Lumumba Sr. Primer

Who was late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba Sr.? Hear him in his voice, read interviews, see campaign donors here.

Broadening the Tent: Lumumba Vows to Gain, Give Respect as Mayor

The 2017 JFP Interview with mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Sheriff Victor: Stop Spreading Rumors in Child Death

Sheriff Victor Mason called on Facebook for people to stop spreading rumors beyond the arrests in the murder of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier.

'Lynching' Call Moves Mississippi Confederate Statues to Spotlight

Mississippi's Confederate memorials carry mixed messages: Some just honor the soldiers, others the "cause" of slavery, still others both.

JPD Targets City's ‘Bandos’

The City of Jackson tries a different kind of 'broken windows' policing to eliminate blight

Facts about Mississippi, Secession, Slavery and the Confederacy

The JFP’s archives of historically factual stories about slavery, secession and the Civil War in Mississippi, with lots of links to primary documents.

White America's Overdue Leap of Faith

Donna Ladd details her racist indoctrination in Mississippi.

Rush to Judgement: Trying Kids As Adults

A long-form look at the problems of trying kids as adults—and coercing their confessions.

Editorial: A State Takeover is Not the Solution for JPS

The reasons the JPS takeover is a bad idea.

The State Takeover of JPS

JFP's stories about the state takeover of the Jackson Public Schools district

Battling Pearl River Flooding: The JFP Archive

The JFP's award-winning coverage of efforts to develop and control flooding along the Pearl River.

Fondren Faces Controversial Hotel Boom

Hotels are piling into Jackson's trendy Fondren community—amid demolition and asbestos controversies.

How Integration Failed in Jackson’s Public Schools from 1969 to 2017

What you may not know about how Jackson's public schools were forced to integrate, followed immediately by thousands of white families fleeing schools, based largely on back science.

Ladd on NBC: Trump Visit a Knife in Mississippi's Back

Donna Ladd explains how race history in Mississippi is vital to America's future.

Project EJECT Expels Gun Offenders to Faraway Prisons

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Project EJECT is a controversial blast from the past.

'No More Damming on the Pearl River"

The Gulf Restoration Network has an an online interface where opponents of "One Lake" can submit comments.

Of Lakes and the Pearl River: A JFP Archive

More than a decade of JFP coverage of flooding and lake plans for the Pearl River

Busting Chris McDaniel's Confederate Myths

Reporter Ashton Pittman picks apart Sen. McDaniel's revisionist history

How Personhood Failed in Mississippi

A Personhood initiative, which went far beyond banning abortion, failed in Mississippi. Who brought it down?