In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, ...

Clarion Ledger records show Jackson saw 14 homicides from January to the end of February 2025 with a couple of those murders ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A bill that would have moved a cell phone tower from the former Eudora Welty Library to the ...

Senate Bill 2267 recently made it to the House’s State Affairs Committee. The bill was presented by Sen. Chris Johnson ...

A longtime Mississippi lawmaker will lie in state at the Capitol Building. Robert G. Clark, who was a member of the ...

Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House ...

The Connecting the Dots Foundation, Inc. will host its annual Women’s History Month celebration on March 29 at the Jackson ...

The Mississippi Department of Human Services is introducing the ELEVATE: A Quality Support System to enhance early childhood education programs in the state, with a focus on training child care ...

"The City did not initiate moving the cell tower. The City agreed to this to accommodate the State’s intended use of the land and what the State wanted," said Jackson Spokesperson Melissa Payne in a ...

Invoices reveal Jackson owes hundreds of thousands of dollars for housing costs for the first three months of the 2025 fiscal ...

"We talk about having relationships, but there's a difference between being friendly and being a friend," Lumumba said. "A ...

Protesters could be heard chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Trump and Musk have got to go" and "Love not hate, makes America great." ...