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Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state
By ADAM GANUCHEAU - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:18PM , 299 Reads 6,803 Statewide
Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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‘When it’s affecting you, crime is bad’: Competing realities behind Jackson’s falling homicide figures
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:12PM , 268 Reads 9,849 Statewide
Fredrick “Geno” Womack didn’t need to see the data to know that Jackson’s homicides had fallen.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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A winter storm is just the latest test of resilience in the sparsely populated south Delta
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:06PM , 207 Reads 5,971 Statewide
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
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Mississippi prison health care reforms: What lived, what died with legislative deadline?
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:00PM , 229 Reads 8,796 Statewide
Measures to improve prison health care access and create stronger safeguards against the denial of care in Mississippi prisons survived the first legislative deadline on Tuesday, but several also died.
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