Black Mississippi senators walked out to protest vote on race theory bill
Black lawmakers walked out in protest and withheld their votes as the Mississippi Senate passed a bill that would ban schools from teaching critical race theory. Senate Bill 2113 passed 32-2 on Friday.
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In Mississippi, a long-running guaranteed income program is helping Black mothers
In the U.S. 30% of families headed by Black mothers live below the poverty line. But one initiative in Mississippi is trying to address that problem with a guaranteed income program Magnolia Mother’s Trust is giving $1,000 a month to…
Uncertainty overwhelms abortion clinics in Louisiana
The possibility of an imminent Supreme Court decision allowing states to further restrict access has pushed the wait for people seeking abortions in Louisiana to several weeks.
The Supreme Court Justices’ remarks on abortion and how they might lean: Will Roe be overturned?
The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.
Hundreds of abortion debate partisans crowded the plaza in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, intermingling and trading chants as justices heard the highly anticipated arguments inside.
The Jackson Women's Health Organization saw patients two or three days a week in recent years, but has doubled its hours to treat women from Texas and from Louisiana.
A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to Mississippi from an underground aquifer that sits beneath parts of both states.
Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured late Monday when seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep hole where a dark, rural highway collapsed as Hurricane Ida blew through Mississippi.
The simple back-to-school precaution of masking has become a source of controversy in Mississippi and around the country as millions of students prepare to enter the academic year and rates of COVID-19 infection soar.
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