So far, all the film-festival talk this week has focused on the New Orleans Film Festival, with its stellar 20th anniversary lineup and sold-out crowds. Today that changes, with the introduction of a ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi native Jesmyn Ward, the first woman and first person of color to win two National Book Awards for fiction, will present a public reading Tuesday [April 12], sharing with ...

For writer Jesmyn Ward, Mississippi is a place she loves and hates all at once. She grew up and still lives in the tiny town of DeLisle, Miss., close by the Gulf Coast, where, she writes, ...

Incumbent Councilman Ashby Foote will likely return to represent Ward 1 on the Jackson City Council after narrowly winning one of the city’s tightest races, where just 25 votes at one point separated ...

MERIDIAN, Miss. – Actress Sela Ward says she is “overwhelmed with sadness” over her home state’s recent enactment of a religious freedom law that civil rights groups contend will lead to ...

Five out of eight candidates running for the Ward 7 seat on the Jackson City Council in Jackson, participated in a forum at Millsaps College, where they answered questions about improving the ward.

A university deputy vice-chancellor has resigned after facing intense backlash for making a controversial comment about staff working from home. Paula Ward, who served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at ...

A 25-year-old woman who sought care at Milwaukee-based Froedtert Hospital’s emergency room and left to find quicker access to care, died soon after, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report. Tashonna ...