Mississippi Today

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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  • 4 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Geoff Pender

    Sometime within the last decade or so, setting the Mississippi state budget became a top-secret affair, closely guarded even against many of the lawmakers who are, ostensibly, tasked with setting it. Why, rank-and-file legislators even have difficulty getting a spreadsheet that clearly shows what’s being proposed until just before they are expected to vote on the more than 100 bills — thousands of pages — that make up the multi-billion budget.

  • 4 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Geoff Pender |Taylor Vance |Michael Goldberg

    State Rep. Omeria Scott of Laurel helps unpack the tumultuous two-day special session of the Mississippi Legislature last week and the $7.1 billion budget lawmakers passed. Scott, a longtime veteran lawmaker, is known for digging in deep on state budgets and spending, and for speaking her mind to leadership on both sides of the aisle. Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.

  • 5 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Jerry Mitchell

    The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned Alabama’s ban on the NAACP, allowing the NAACP to operate in the state for the first time in eight years. NAACP leader Ruby Hurley set up the office in Birmingham in 1951, only to be forced to flee the state five years later after Alabama authorities aggressively investigated the NAACP and tried to seize membership records.

  • 5 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Bobby Harrison

    Note: Special screenings of “Sinners” were held in Clarksdale this week after residents decried the lack of a movie theater. You can read more about those events here. Blues music has long been linked to the mystical or supernatural. After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and 61 in the Delta to be able to play a guitar like no one else.

  • 6 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Jerry Mitchell

    The Tulsa race massacre began after a white mob gathered at a jail where a Black teen had been arrested on false charges of “attacking” a white girl in an elevator. In reality, he may have tripped or bumped into her. Although authorities exonerated him, that didn’t stop the mob.