
On this day in 1994
On this day in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers.

Senate bill takes voters out of voter initiative proposal
Lawmakers of old would have been too embarrassed and afraid to try to approve the ballot initiative proposal that passed out of Senate committee last week.

Q&A: Rep. Missy McGee calls postpartum Medicaid expansion ‘most impactful thing’ state can do for women and children
In this Q&A, Rep. Missy McGee discussed her push to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage for new moms in Mississippi.

On this day in 1913
On this day in 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.



On this day in 1956
On this day in 1956, Autherine Lucy became the first Black student to attend graduate school at the University of Alabama

Hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted, questionable in McDaniel’s campaign report
Sen. Chris McDaniel’s first financial reports for his lieutenant governor race leave voters in the dark about the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars and raise legal questions.


Lawmakers want to keep citations of medical marijuana businesses secret
Department of Health spokesperson Liz Sharlot responded to Mississippi Today’s request saying the agency is “withholding all documents in our ongoing investigative files” pending a decision from the state’s Ethics Commission on “certain exemptions.”
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