Buddhist monks walk from Texas to nation’s capital to promote peace, unity and kindness

Jason White's poll on vouchers ignores strong test results in Mississippi public schools

Speaker Jason White commissioned a poll about school choice or vouchers. It omitted information about Mississippi public schools having strong test scores.

JXN Water pushes for independent oversight of Jackson’s water and sewer systems

Jackson’s water and sewer systems would remain outside city officials’ control under a proposal by a federally appointed manager that would establish an independent, customer-governed authority to oversee the troubled utilities.

Richard E. Holmes, first Black student at Mississippi State University, dies at 82

Dr. Richard E. Holmes, who integrated the Mississippi State University in 1965 and later returned as a campus physician, died Friday at the age of 82.

Colom out-raises Hyde-Smith, but incumbent has more cash on hand

Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, raised almost twice as much money as Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith the past three months, but Hyde-Smith still has more cash on hand.

Mississippi has its own history book of 'Laughter and Forgetting,' professor writes

To abandon Mississippi history is to abandon hope of healing and positive change. Instead, we remain “victims of our own incomprehension,” bound to repeat past mistakes and make new and equally harmful ones, professor writes.