Debbie Skipper News Today

As one of 75 newsrooms reporting on rural issues in 47 states, Mississippi Today is part of a national initiative to uncover critical needs in these communities.

Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that was taken in front of a sign commemorating the murder of the 14-year-old black youth in 1955.

On this day in 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

Tornadoes ripping through Mississippi Friday night left at least 23 dead, four missing, and dozens injured.

Mississippi has one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States, and its prison system has long been plagued by accusations of brutality, corruption and abuse. This year, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica have teamed up to understand why the state’s prisons haven’t gotten better, even after a landmark prison reform law.