1950: Families file Briggs v. Elliott lawsuit

Black organizers prepare for a new era of voting rights battles

While no single strategy will be a silver bullet, there’s been renewed focus on several fronts: state Voting Rights Acts to preserve protections on a more local level, youth-led movements to ramp up public pressure, and grassroots organizing to help voters navigate an increasingly fraught election system.

Author, former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens: 'There is no Republican Party'

Stuart Stevens for decades was one of the top Republican political strategists and he ran campaigns for dozens of congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. But the Mississippi native left the party over President Trump and says, “There is no Republican party … it has turned into the pro-tariffs party.” Stevens says the GOP these days, “in many ways is to the left of the Democratic Party.” The author of the New York Times bestseller “It Was All a Lie” and numerous other books also gives his take on Mississippi’s upcoming midterm elections, how Sen. Roger Wicker is doing as armed […]

California reading scores are up, thanks to literacy investments. Can the state do more?

Is a shortage of literacy coaches keeping California from achieving gains in fourth grade reading similar to the "Mississippi Miracle"?

Getting ready for the 2026 hurricane season

With Tropical Storm Bertha churning in the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA is forecasting between three and six hurricanes and one and three major events, which are Category 3 (wind speeds over 110 miles per hour) and above, this hurricane season. 

'Black Box' podcast goes beneath the surface of Mississippi’s opioid epidemic and settlements

Mississippi Today and Goat Rodeo wrote the Black Box podcast with Mississippi’s opioid epidemic victims in mind. We want to honor the over 10,000 people who will never be able to listen to it.