Civil rights veteran John Perkins, who preached racial reconciliation, dead at 95

Baptist Memorial to take over Merit Health Rankin hospital

Baptist Memorial Health Care will take over the lease and operations of Merit Health Rankin this year, making it the third Merit Health facility in Mississippi to change hands in the past two years, officials said Tuesday.

Was James Meredith’s greatest achievement his March Against Fear?

James Meredith, who no longer gives interviews, recently told Mississippi Today through his wife that he agrees with his granddaughter, Janae Knight, who said integrating the University of Mississippi – which she now attends – was "necessary to wage his war against segregation."

How the US Supreme Court’s Callais ruling erased a key Mississippi voting rights victory

A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped away.

College baseball: Mississippi State and Ole Miss play in separate NCAA super regionals

Mississippi State and Ole Miss are competing in separate super regionals for college baseball.

Parents rally around Canton charter school facing possible state closure

Fiscal management problems may cost SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy its charter. Some parents of students who attend the Canton charter school questioned what's going on and why.