HUD Debars Sunset Village Landlords Long After Deaths In Mississippi Delta
The federal government has debarred the landlord of a Cleveland, Miss., apartment complex where two residents died in a gas leak.
The federal government has debarred the landlord of a Cleveland, Miss., apartment complex where two residents died in a gas leak.
Wynbridge State University is the new proposed name for the Mississippi University for Women, President Nora Miller announced Tuesday.
Mississippi Delta communities deserve equitable broadband access and transparency in federal grant spending, residents say.
Democract Ty Pinkins relaunched his 2024 U.S. Senate campaign outside the Mississippi Capitol on Jan. 8, 2024.
A charter school will open for Mississippi high school students for the first time after the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board approved Clarksdale Collegiate Prep’s application to begin serving 9-12 students in fall 2025.
Bread and Butter Shoppe owner and grant recipient Valour Cobbins would not still be in operation had Cobbins not received grant money from Coalition to Back Black Businesses, financial assistance that went toward paying her lease.
At least 26 people are dead after powerful tornadoes tore through the Mississippi Delta Friday night, destroying homes and buildings, leveling entire communities and injuring dozens including in the towns of Silver City, Rolling Fork, Winona and Amory.
“Democratic candidates in past elections have done very little to increase turnout in many predominantly low-turnout, high-poverty, Black-dominated precincts where most “retired” Democratic voters live,” Karen Hinton writes.
South Arts selected Sipp Culture and the B.B. King Museum to receive $300,000 over three years, in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
125 S. Congress Street #1324
Jackson, MS 39201
info@mississippifreepress.org
tips@mississippifreepress.org
events@mississippifreepress.org
601-362-6121