In a private WhatsApp text thread, a group of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers.
Crime, potholes, homelessness: Jackson turns to data for answers
Jackson joins 19 other cities in the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance to improve municipal services
On this day in 1963
On this day in 1963, a mob attacked Black and white activists at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
This DeSoto Co. hospital transfers some patients to jail to await mental health treatment
Dozens of times a year, deputies pick up patients at this north Mississippi hospital and bring them to jail to wait for mental health treatment.
On this day in 1958
On this day in 1958, Ernest Green became the first Black American to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Podcast: Presumptive Medicaid eligibility promises to improve Mississippi’s high infant, maternal mortality rates, save taxpayers’ money
Community health reporter Sophia Paffenroth discusses with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison a new law set to take effect July 1 that will provide more timely prenatal care via more easily accessed Medicaid health coverage.
Photos: Health Department’s first state employee wellness expo
The Mississippi State Department of Health hosted its inaugural State Employee Wellness Expo on Thursday at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson.
On this day in 1956
On this day in 1956, a bus boycott began in Tallahassee after two Florida A&M students refused to give up their seats to white passengers.
Speaker White’s Holmes County background colors his views on Medicaid expansion
White is from rural Holmes County, one of the poorest areas of the country on the edge of the Mississippi Delta.
Magnolia State’s high school baseball has come long, long way
Mississippi high schools keep producing top shelf talent, which is why the state’s college baseball teams are so successful year after year.
On this day in 1774
On this day in 1774, Black residents in the Massachusetts Bay colony, detained as slaves, declared in a petition that they were born free.
Judge: Juries, not judges, should rule on officers’ ‘bad acts’
Jailed nearly two years charged with a capital murder he didn’t commit, Desmond Green wants the “rogue” detective who put him there held accountable.
On this day in 1961
On this day in 1961, 27 Freedom Riders headed to New Orleans were arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi, bus station.