Ole Miss students and parents call for accountability after viral racist incident

Nonprofit celebrates personal finance and economic literacy

Business leaders, politicians and educators learned about the importance of financial and economic literacy at the Mississippi Council on Economic Education’s annual fundraiser.  “If we all begin making decisions from a place of being better informed, we can make a meaningful impact on our families, schools, communities and society,” said Jaqueline Brown, a teacher from […]

Mississippi's newest barrier to voting is Experian data, brother of slain civil rights activist writes

Brother of slain civil rights activist Andrew Goodman writes that 62 years after death of his brother Mississippi is still putting up barriers to voting. Experian is the latest roadblock.

Few museums show the North's Civil Rights Movement. A new one in Harlem is ‘just getting started’

The Urban Civil Rights Museum will open this weekend in New York's Harlem neighborhood, providing a look at the region's lesser-known histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the changemakers and artists whose contributions helped shape politics and culture worldwide.

Jackson gets $64 million federal grant to hire more police, boost anti-crime surveillance

Jackson is one of four cities the U.S. Department of Justice chose for its $300 million Model Cities Initiative. Mississippi's capital city will receive $64 million over the next three years.

Mississippi awarded $205M for second year of federal rural health program

Mississippi will receive nearly $205 million for the second year of a national program that aims to improve rural healthcare, federal officials announced Monday.