Race Equality Gap GrowingBlack families in America have never reached the levels of wealth that American whites enjoy, a new report from Brandeis University finds.
Cindy GriffinAt Jaycee Park Friday, Cindy Griffin, the executive director of the Habitat for Humanity-Metro Jackson affiliate, announced that the organization received a $250,000 matching grant from Lowe's.
Miss. Regulators to Consider Kemper Rate IncreaseUtility regulators will be asked again Tuesday to approve a rate increase to repay money Mississippi Power Co. has borrowed to build a coal-fired power plant in Kemper County.
News of HIV Cure Worries AdvocatesMississippi HIV/AIDS advocates are meeting the news of a baby's apparent cure from human immunodeficiency virus with hope and cautious optimism.
Gene DattelA Mississippi Delta native, Gene Dattel was the only Mississippian to attend Yale in 1962.
Community Events and Public MeetingsThe documentary "United States of ALEC" is showing March 5, 7 p.m., in the Student Center Theater at Jackson State University.
Bulldogs Stun Rebels in Basketball UpsetSTARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State had a 13-game losing streak, only seven scholarship players and every reason in the world to roll over for Mississippi on Saturday in front of a two-thirds filled Humphrey Coliseum. Instead, the Bulldogs pulled …
Sequester to Affect Mississippi's ChildrenToday marks the deadline for Congress and the president to agree on a plan to avoid the $85 billion in automatic, indiscriminate spending cuts called the sequester.
Dr. Michael V. WilliamsWhen Dr. Michael Vinson Williams discusses his most recent book, "Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr," one can only wonder where he obtained the passion to write such an in-depth biography of one of Jackson's most important visionaries.
It's the Weekend!On Saturday, the JFP sponsors the Jackson 2000 Friendship Ball at 7 p.m. at Hal & Mal's.
Black families in America have never reached the levels of wealth that American whites enjoy, a new report from Brandeis University finds.
Monday, March 11, the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Expo will be at the Metrocenter Mall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
At Jaycee Park Friday, Cindy Griffin, the executive director of the Habitat for Humanity-Metro Jackson affiliate, announced that the organization received a $250,000 matching grant from Lowe's.
Mississippi HIV/AIDS advocates are meeting the news of a baby's apparent cure from human immunodeficiency virus with hope and cautious optimism.
For decades, doctors have been warned about the dangers of delivering babies early without a medical reason. But the practice remained stubbornly persistent.
A Mississippi Delta native, Gene Dattel was the only Mississippian to attend Yale in 1962.
Today marks the deadline for Congress and the president to agree on a plan to avoid the $85 billion in automatic, indiscriminate spending cuts called the sequester.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.