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Mississippi High Schools Receive $75,000 in DICK’S Grants to Repair Tornado Damages

Mississippi High Schools Receive $75,000 in DICK’S Grants to Repair Tornado Damages

Torsheta Jackson

Jackson State’s Tiger Pantry Supports Food-Insecure Students

Shaunicy Muhammad

Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Rep. Banks Sentenced to Probation For False Tax Statement

Heather Harrison

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Voting Rights Advocates Demand Answers on Hinds County Ballot Shortages

Voting Rights Advocates Demand Answers on Hinds County Ballot Shortages

Shaunicy MuhammadDecember 8, 2023

Voting-rights organizations are demanding answers about the ballot shortages that affected voters in Hinds County, Miss., in November’s elections.

MFP VOICES

Editor’s Note | Joy of Asking and Learning: A Media Organization Is Only As Good As Its People

Editor’s Note | Joy of Asking and Learning: A Media Organization Is Only As Good As Its People

Opinion | The Anti-War Paradigm: ‘No Human Being Is More Valuable Than Another’

Virginia Sciolino

Opinion | The Rural-Urban Divide in America Is Oversimplified

Opinion | Mississippi’s New Medicaid Redetermination Is Evil

Duvalier Malone

FOCUS: NEWS AND INDEPTH

Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Rep. Banks Sentenced to Probation For False Tax Statement

Rep. Banks Sentenced to Probation For False Tax Statement

Heather Harrison

Jackson Water Concerns Remain A Year After Federal Takeover Despite Significant Improvements

Jackson Water Concerns Remain A Year After Federal Takeover Despite Significant Improvements

Shaunicy Muhammad

Willie Manning Execution Date Decision Delayed Amid DNA Testing Push

Willie Manning Execution Date Decision Delayed Amid DNA Testing Push

Heather Harrison

CULTURE

‘Out of Bounds’: Art Museum Hosts First Picasso Exhibit in Mississippi, Exploring His Landscapes and Legacy

‘Out of Bounds’: Art Museum Hosts First Picasso Exhibit in Mississippi, Exploring His Landscapes and Legacy

‘Starkville’s Most Unique Boutique’: Dunkington Offers Acrylic-Poured Homeware

‘Starkville’s Most Unique Boutique’: Dunkington Offers Acrylic-Poured Homeware

Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and Southern Miss Present ‘Holiday Peppermint Pops’

Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and Southern Miss Present ‘Holiday Peppermint Pops’

FOCUS: 2023 ELECTIONS

Voting Rights Advocates Demand Answers on Hinds County Ballot Shortages

Voting Rights Advocates Demand Answers on Hinds County Ballot Shortages

Shaunicy Muhammad

Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Editor’s Note | Interrogating Mississippi’s Election Systems

Editor’s Note | Interrogating Mississippi’s Election Systems

In(Equity) and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19

MFP’s Systemic Reporting Prototype ‘BWC Project’ Wins National Award

MFP’s Systemic Reporting Prototype ‘BWC Project’ Wins National Award

One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

Torsheta Jackson

Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

DeAnna Tisdale Johnson

TANF

Highlights: Reeves and Presley Debate Abortion, Medicaid, Welfare Scandal, Taxes

Highlights: Reeves and Presley Debate Abortion, Medicaid, Welfare Scandal, Taxes

Heather Harrison

Brett Favre Testimony Pushed Back to December, After Mississippi Elections

Brett Favre Testimony Pushed Back to December, After Mississippi Elections

Brett Favre to Give Sworn Testimony On Mississippi Welfare Scandal

Brett Favre to Give Sworn Testimony On Mississippi Welfare Scandal

ACADEMY STORIES

A space for public conversation on race in the South, including the persisting impact of private academies.

I Offered My Best to a System Not Meant For All the Others I Am by Katrina Byrd

I Never Saw the System by Ellen Morris Prewitt-Myers

It Was On the Back of Black Students by W. Ralph Eubanks

MFP Live: Ellen Ann Fentress

MISSISSIPPI RACE VIOLENCE PROJECT

Unserved Arrest Warrant For ‘Mrs. Roy Bryant’ in Till Case Uncovered in Leflore County

Unserved Arrest Warrant For ‘Mrs. Roy Bryant’ in Till Case Uncovered in Leflore County

FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

Nick Judin and Donna Ladd

Deacons for Defense Fought for Black Lives from Donnan’s Barbershop in Natchez

Deacons for Defense Fought for Black Lives from Donnan’s Barbershop in Natchez

Pastoral Scenes of a Gallant South: Lynching Victims Finally Memorialized in Oxford

Pastoral Scenes of a Gallant South: Lynching Victims Finally Memorialized in Oxford

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

SOLUTIONS FOR MISSISSIPPI

‘Building an Industry’: Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

‘Building an Industry’: Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

Heather Harrison

C.O.O.L. Learning: Education Programs Target Social Challenges in Mississippi

C.O.O.L. Learning: Education Programs Target Social Challenges in Mississippi

Michele D. Baker

Entrepreneurs Academy 101 Teaches Skills to Help Participants Launch Their Own Businesses

Entrepreneurs Academy 101 Teaches Skills to Help Participants Launch Their Own Businesses

Learning Garden: Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

Learning Garden: Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

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