Mississippi Today

Mississippi News and Information Corporation, known as Mississippi Today, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan digital platform dedicated to delivering unbiased news and information. It focuses on state and local government matters, as well as community topics like education, health, economic growth, poverty, race, and the social culture of Mississippi. The team at Mississippi Today is committed to producing thorough and high-quality journalism that serves as a watchdog for the government, supports democracy, and influences the state's future. By raising public awareness about how government decisions impact individuals and communities, they aim to encourage more civic participation. Additionally, Mississippi Today is dedicated to fostering the next generation of skilled journalists who represent the state's diversity. They do this by recruiting talented graduates from journalism, communications, and public policy programs, and by collaborating with current students at Mississippi's colleges and universities to equip them with the skills needed for successful careers.

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Trump and Musk are attacking the humanities. Mississippians must fight back.

3 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Adam Ganucheau

Mississippi is the beating heart of American culture. Our writers have reshaped literature, our musicians have birthed modern genres, our freedom fighters have given voice to the nation’s conscience. From Welty and Faulkner to Jesmyn and Kiese, from Robert Johnson to Jimmie Rodgers, from Ida B. Wells to Medgar Evers, Mississippi’s influence on American culture isn’t just important — it’s foundational.
'Trainwreck on the horizon': The costly pains of Mississippi’s small water and sewer systems

3 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Alex Rozier

This is the first of a two-part story. “This state ain’t nothing but a big Jackson,” Central District Public Service Commissioner De’Keither Stamps said during a December meeting that harkened back to his time as a capital city councilman. “We got a whole statewide trainwreck that’s on the horizon.”Over a thousand drinking water systems, most of them small, and hundreds of additional sewer systems operate in Mississippi.
Jackson voters will return to the polls April 22. Here’s what they said.

5 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Maya Miller

What was your reaction to the mayoral primary results? “Shocked.”Cheri Marshall“It was expected.”Darius Williams“Disappointed.”Koreyan Black, Al Brown, Georgia Cohran, Lucie CooperMayor Chokwe Lumumba and longtime state Sen. John Horhn are heading to a runoff April 22 after Horhn strongly led in the Democratic primary for mayor, securing more than 48% of the vote with broad support from across the city. The incumbent received about 17% of the vote.
Leonard Court home restoration project underway, ‘rebirthing the soul’ of Farish Street District

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Maya Miller

More than a hundred people gathered Wednesday outside of We Will Go Ministries to celebrate the groundbreaking of Leonard Court on Farish Street. The nearly $30 million project, more than four years in the making, will restore and rebuild 67 homes in the historic neighborhood located near downtown Jackson.
Federal cuts impact STI testing in Mississippi

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Gwen Dilworth

Sexually transmitted infection testing is no longer free at county health departments due to recent federal cuts to COVID-19 pandemic relief funding. Community-based organizations and health providers that previously received free STI testing at the state’s public health laboratory through federal grant funding will now have to pay for the services or contract with a commercial lab.
Podcast: Basking in the glow of The Masters…

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland |Tyler Cleveland

Has a sporting event ever produced more drama than the 2025 Masters? Has any network ever displayed it better than CBS? No and no, say the Clevelands, who also opine on the sad case of former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava, Mississippi’s college baseball teams, and what the Saints should do at quarterback. Stream all episodes here.
On this day in 1963

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Jerry Mitchell

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote. Jail trusties passed his words to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into a 21-page typed letter to eight white clergymen who had chastised him for breaking the law.
Two Capitol Police officers who killed a Jackson man face a manslaughter indictment

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Jerry Mitchell

Two men working as Capitol Police officers have been indicted for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Jackson man in 2022. Mississippi Today has obtained a copy of the March 14 indictment, which charges Steven Frederick Jr. and Michael Lamar Rhinewalt with manslaughter in the Sept. 25, 2022, death of 25-year-old Jaylen Lewis in Hinds County.
In case of Nico Iamaleava, there are no heroes, only laments

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Rick Cleveland

So many ways to look at the sad case of former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava. Perhaps the best way is this: He is a walking, talking, five-star illustration of just how remarkably screwed up college football has become in this NIL, open transfer era. For those that don’t know, Iamaleava was the gifted, 20-year-old starting quarterback for the Vols until last Friday when he failed to show up for practice before Tennessee’s annual spring football game.
On this day in 1947

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Jerry Mitchell

Jackie Robinson broke through the color barrier in Major League Baseball, becoming the first Black player in the 20th century. Born in Cairo, Georgia, Robinson lettered in four sports at UCLA – football, basketball, baseball and track. After time in the military, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues.