JPS superintendent talks about the need to consolidate schools.
Who was late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba Sr.? Hear him in his voice, read interviews, see campaign donors here.
The 2017 JFP Interview with mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Sheriff Victor Mason called on Facebook for people to stop spreading rumors beyond the arrests in the murder of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier.
Mississippi's Confederate memorials carry mixed messages: Some just honor the soldiers, others the "cause" of slavery, still others both.
The City of Jackson tries a different kind of 'broken windows' policing to eliminate blight
The JFP’s archives of historically factual stories about slavery, secession and the Civil War in Mississippi, with lots of links to primary documents.
Donna Ladd details her racist indoctrination in Mississippi.
A long-form look at the problems of trying kids as adults—and coercing their confessions.
The reasons the JPS takeover is a bad idea.
JFP's stories about the state takeover of the Jackson Public Schools district
The JFP's award-winning coverage of efforts to develop and control flooding along the Pearl River.
Hotels are piling into Jackson's trendy Fondren community—amid demolition and asbestos controversies.
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.
Donna Ladd explains how race history in Mississippi is vital to America's future.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Project EJECT is a controversial blast from the past.
The Gulf Restoration Network has an an online interface where opponents of "One Lake" can submit comments.
More than a decade of JFP coverage of flooding and lake plans for the Pearl River
Reporter Ashton Pittman picks apart Sen. McDaniel's revisionist history
A Personhood initiative, which went far beyond banning abortion, failed in Mississippi. Who brought it down?