EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last of 10 young white people who repeatedly assaulted African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city received the...
By Danielle Young Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Chronicle (NNPA) — Sarah Adelia Graves, 22 and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21 were sentenced to...
Molly Hennessey-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PORT GIBSON, Miss. (The L.A. Times)—They found the black man’s body hanging by a bedsheet from a locust tree....
(Politico) – Mississippi has a sickly reputation. The Magnolia State ranks at or near the bottom in most health rankings: worst infant mortality and most kids...
JEFF AMY, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three more young white men, all part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city for black...
DAVID BRANDT, AP Sports Writer VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — The day before the Super Bowl that would change Malcolm Butler’s life, he posted a picture of...
JOHN RABY, Associated Press EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With rampant diabetes and obesity, Mississippi and West Virginia have struggled with health...