A 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant worker became the third worker to die at a Hattiesburg, Miss., poultry plant since 2020 after a machinery-related accident last week.
Cyrus Ben won reelection last night and will serve another term as tribal chief for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is holding elections today from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. for tribal chief and eight seats on the Tribal Council to serve four-year terms.
Preserving heritage and cultural pride are driving forces for Gloria Gipson Suggs’ visual art.
A series of Small Business Administration programs were supposed to keep small businesses afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. But many who applied for the loans and targeted advances found themselves waiting years for help, even as their businesses crumbled around them.
One day shy of a year after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed poultry plants across Mississippi and arrested 680 undocumented workers, ICE and the U.S. Department of Justice announced their first indictments against executives at the targeted companies.
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