Juneteenth commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
Capital City Pride will hold a “Coming Home With Pride” celebration in October 2022 that welcomes LGBTQ+ Mississippians who had previously left the state.
Carmigo Founder and CEO Andrew Warmath allows owners to sell their used cars to the highest bidder among various auto dealerships.
On Feb. 26, the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra welcomes Alexander Markov to Tupelo, Miss., where he will play at Link Centre Concert Hall for his seventh concert with the organization, “Magnificent Markov.”
Retired civil-rights lawyer Barbara Phillips filed an ethics complaint against Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill, then called an unsanctioned meeting of the Oxford Commission on Police Transparency. The mayor and police chief did not run this meeting as they usually do.
Three local Oxford candidates are in confusing limbo after Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced on Monday that municipal candidates in Mississippi should be required to live in their current wards for at least two years leading up to their election in order to qualify for their races.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, joined five other senators this evening in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
America seems to be working as designed, but here’s the fatal flaw. Our American dream rests on something subtle and pernicious. In the 1950s, the national policy was to empower people—white people—to own homes and begin to generate wealth through real estate and banking. It worked.
Initiative 65 is backed by a Mississippi-based organization whose steering committee includes current and former legislators from both major parties, board-certified physicians, pharmacists, law enforcement officers and military veterans, among others. If there is any industry that profits from marijuana, it is our nation’s criminal justice system.
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