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Feds order Mississippi Legislature to create more Black districts and hold special elections next year
The Mississippi Legislature must adopt new state Senate and House maps with Black-majority districts during its 2025 session and conduct elections to fill those new seats, a federal three-judge panel ruled on Thursday. The judges previously ruled in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Mississippi Conference of the NAACP...
Mississippi ranks worst overall in women’s health on new national scorecard
Mississippi ranks last in women’s health and reproductive care outcomes, according to a 2024 report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to independent research on health policy. The study’s authors pointed to the state’s lack of Medicaid expansion and strict abortion ban as two major causes....
Special interest groups endorse, donate to Mississippi judicial candidates
It’s fairly common in the Magnolia State for political organizations and interests groups to get involved in judicial races, since Mississippi opts to elect its state judges. The post Special interest groups endorse, donate to Mississippi judicial candidates appeared first on Mississippi Today.
Dau Mabil’s family agrees on pathologist to perform independent autopsy
After weeks of back and forth, the widow and brother of Dau Mabil have agreed on a pathologist who can perform an independent autopsy. Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas wrote in a Wednesday order that Dr. Daniel Schultz, president of Florida-based Final Diagnosis, may perform the autopsy. Thomas denied...
Podcast: Mississippi’s big night at the MLB Draft.
For young Konnor Griffin, MLB Draft night could not have gone much better. Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s in journalism, Rick has worked for the Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He was sports editor of Hattiesburg American, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers.
Curtis Wilkie: President Biden should step aside to protect his country and his legacy
President Joe Biden should not run for reelection for the good of the country and to preserve his legacy, longtime journalist Curtis Wilkie writes. The post Curtis Wilkie: President Biden should step aside to protect his country and his legacy appeared first on Mississippi Today.
Mississippi Today journalists win 2024 Green Eyeshade Awards
Mississippi Today has been recognized in multiple categories of the 2024 Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, a prestigious annual competition that recognizes the best journalism in the Southeast. The awards honor journalism published in 2023 and are open to journalists and news organizations from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,...
DUI charge against state Sen. Michael McLendon dismissed
A judge has dismissed a driving-under-the-influence charge in Alabama against Mississippi state Sen. Michael McLendon, R-Hernando, according to court records. Baldwin County, Alabama, District Judge George Elbrecht in an order dismissed the charge after McLendon’s attorney made an oral motion in court to dismiss the charge. The brief, one-page...
Program aimed at increasing access to prenatal care pending federal approval
Pregnancy presumptive eligibility in Mississippi is still not in effect, despite becoming law July 1. However, the Division of Medicaid said it has cleared several administrative hurdles and is awaiting action from the federal government. But a discrepancy between state and federal law may delay the process further. Legislators wrote...
Federal grant funds professional growth for Mississippi Delta STEM teachers
Delta State University has launched a new program to help STEM teachers in the Delta. The Collaborative for Rural STEM Education program provides resources and professional development. Its funding comes from a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This year’s program has 22 teachers from 12 districts,...
For young Konnor Griffin, MLB Draft night could not have gone much better
First things first: Jackson Prep baseball phenom Konnor Griffin, 18 years young, will become approximately $7 million richer when he signs a Major League contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates one day soon. The Pirates made Griffin, the national high school player of the year, the ninth pick of Sunday night’s...
Podcast: Democratic strategist says questioning Biden’s health is understandable
Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance talk with former Democratic state House member and attorney Brandon Jones about President Joe Biden’s health, about state Supreme Court races and a litany of ongoing federal lawsuits that could impact Mississippi politics. The post Podcast: Democratic strategist says questioning Biden’s health is understandable appeared first on Mississippi Today.
Damascus Road: Drug court changing lives, saving taxpayers ‘boatload of money’
By his own analysis, Michael Fisher, 39, just a few years ago was a “dope-selling, drug-addicted failure … homeless with a needle in my arm” who’d spent about half his life in jail, on probation or on parole. He had never even gotten a driver’s license or graduated high school.
On this day in 1948
The Democratic National Convention adopted a platform that called for a federal anti-lynching law, the abolition of poll taxes and the desegregation of armed forces. The vote came to the floor as a minority report of the Platform Committee, the spokesman for it being then-Minneapolis Mayor, Hubert Humphrey. The entire...
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