Conservative Fred Rand argues that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith furthers negative stereotypes of Mississippi .
A long-time member of the Sons of the Confederacy argues that the Mississippi state flag must be changed.
Phil Bryant is not the first Mississippi governor to actively support a state's efforts to secede from a union. But he is the first to so actively involve himself in a U.S. ally's own secession plans.
Jennifer Riley Collins, the Democratic nominee for Mississippi attorney general in 2019, challenges her own party to do better.
Donna Ladd writes that Angie Thomas is leaving Mississippi—and calls for Mississippi Dems to truly invite all voices to the table going forward.
Read Ashton Pittman's breaking story and see video of white supremacists scurrying away from the Emmett Till marker when alarms went off.
Valerie Wells charts the history of The Clarion-Ledger from virulent racism, to a period of glory, back to darker corporate-journalism days under Gannett ownership.
We dig for the documents you deserve to see. Poke around years of material in our morgue.
Read the Jackson Free Press editor's weekly report on government and media accountability in Mississippi.
Read the Jackson Free Press editor's weekly report on government and media accountability in Mississippi.
Read the Jackson Free Press editor's weekly report on government and media accountability in Mississippi.
Follow the controversies inside Mississippi's universities, the money behind them and the controversies inside the Institutions of Higher Learning.
Donna Ladd's post that revealed her breast cancer and set ground rules for what happened next.
Read more about disparities in treatment and prevention on the Susan G. Komen website.
Men, women haven't been put on this planet to meet our needs or coddle our egos.
With horse-race reporting, Mississippi media buries candidates who want to focus on real issues.
JFP coverage of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program
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."
An archive of impactful journalism on the problems with policing in Mississippi
Donna Ladd and Nick Judin wrote an explainer on the Mississippi connections to the Trump impeachment inquiry.