The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

The federal holiday recognizes when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas found out they were free. But New York, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida have their own freedom days

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene

Director Ryan Coogler and other cast and crew members of the hit film “Sinners” visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is set, for a special screening

Plus: Brett Favre, Monaco, and an unprecedented media ban.

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it’s one of the great joys of the season. It’s also a minor miracle. These small creatures have just flown more than 1,850 miles (3,000 kilometers), all the…

A new documentary explores how the legend of one of the league’s greatest quarterbacks endures, despite the multiple scandals that have engulfed him

Mississippi’s request for federal disaster assistance is pending more than two months after 18 tornados ripped through the state, killing seven and damaging hundreds of homes

Sinners, a blues-soaked horror film set in 1930s Mississippi, was preemptively tagged by many film industry insiders as an inevitable flop. But it became a word-of-mouth sleeper hit that continues to draw huge audiences globally, weeks after its release.

A default judgment was made against China, which refuses to recognize the lawsuit, after it failed to show up in court