A recent report by the nonprofit Empower Mississippi found the state’s labor force participation rate is 53.9%, the lowest in the nation.

Corey Miller, state economist and director of Mississippi's University Research Center, gives Mississippi Today's Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender a briefing on the economic state of the state, ...

It gives me an opportunity to dance and spend time with people that I would usually not socialize with in the bubble that we call the Capitol.” ...

Julian Rankin was raised in Mississippi and North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rankin was the founding Director of the Center for Art & Public Exchange ...

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Analysis: Mississippi politicians are once again continuing a long legacy of working to make it more difficult for Mississippians to vote.

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The prospect of Jackson again having its own, self-sustaining water system rests on its residents and their pocketbooks.

The suit names Optum, Evernorth Health, Express Scripts and several of the companies’ subsidiaries as defendants.

The photographs in Doy Gorton’s “White South" are from 1969 and 1970, a time when massive resistance to segregation had begun to crumble.