Deborah Archer, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke to attendees at Drury University on advancing racial justice in the nation.Archer was the first speaker...
“A third-party vote is a vote for Donald Trump.”With 2023 ending, I’m eagerly awaiting the deluge of text messages, social media posts, and phone calls browbeating...
Arguing that Missourians who donated to a left-leaning media watchdog nonprofit may have been misled, state Attorney General Andrew Bailey has waded into a recent controversy...
Douglas Bridge in Juneau in December 2018. (Photo by David Purdy/KTOO) Juneau’s Systemic Racism Review Committee has flagged legislation for the first time since its creation...
This is Part 3 in the MFP’s Mitchell family series for the Rural News Network. Read Part 1 and Part 3. Warning: This essay contains detailed...
The nearly 14 million people of color who live in rural America face unique challenges that run the gamut — from navigating racism in real estate,...
For the last nine years, Juanita Davis has worked to give hope to people diagnosed with HIV and to get Black people in Jackson talking about...
JACKSON, Miss.—In early October, Mississippi Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley crisscrossed Jackson, shaking hands and taking selfies as he courted residents in the nearly 83%-Black...
Mississippi voters will elect leaders for all eight statewide offices in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Those offices include governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general,...
JACKSON, Miss.—Worshippers at Beth Israel Congregation, Mississippi’s largest Jewish synagogue, are looking to move forward after someone emailed a bomb threat to the temple on Sunday,...
