Before Europeans claimed Choctaw land for their own in the early 19th century, the tribe owned a large swath that cut across the present-day state.
Before the State fired him from leading the civil probe into Mississippi’s sprawling welfare-fraud case, attorney Brad Pigott was too “focused on the political side of things,” Republican Gov. Tate Reeves told reporters at the Neshoba County Fair on Thursday.
Stickball is a Native American sport where two teams of 20 to 30 players use sticks, named “kabocca,” to throw a small, orange ball at a pole that stands about 12 feet high. Each team defends a pole while simultaneously trying to hit the other team’s pole one hundred yards away with the game ball.
“Mississippi Burning” is a historical crime thriller film loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of three Congress of Racial Equality civil rights workers—James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—who were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., by the Ku Klux Klan. Contributing author Roger Amos, a Neshoba County native, discovered parts of his own Choctaw history during the Civil Rights Movement and this historical investigation after reading about it in history class.
Pearl River Elementary School organizes the yearly Pearl River Spring Festival to celebrate the spring season, as well as the end of the school year.
Mississippi Makers Fest is an all-day festival centered around the Entergy Plaza at the Two Mississippi Museums from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7.
The Magnolia State Spartans are competing as members of the Arena Football Association. The central Mississippi team will play its first home game on April 23, 2022, against Wichita Force at the Neshoba County Coliseum.
Doctors are warning that the pandemic has broken Mississippi’s health-care system, and now as omicron washes over the state, doctors and nurses are exhausted and rushing to catch up.
Nearly three decades ago, most of the once-bustling businesses in downtown Laurel, Miss., had shuttered their windows, and the brick streets that criss-crossed the Pine Belt town’s center were void of pedestrians and drivers alike. Today, downtown Laurel is enjoying a resurgence thanks to locals and outside assistance. As always throughout its history, like that of other Mississippi towns, it’s complicated.
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