Jackson Free Press

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• March 4, 2022

Shakira Austin

The University of Mississippi women’s basketball team finished fourth in the conference standings during the regular season. That finish allows the Rebels to earn a double-bye in the 2022 SEC …

Mississippi lawmakers will negotiate a final version of a bill to increase some of the …

• March 4, 2022

Mississippi Teacher Pay Raise Bill Heading to Negotiations

Mississippi lawmakers will negotiate a final version of a bill to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation.

‘Babies in the Hospital’: Mississippi Drastically Lags in Child and Pediatric Vaccinations

As COVID-19 continues its decline across Mississippi and the country, state health leadership warns that hospitals are still seeing pediatric patients, while vaccinations in children are lagging far behind the …

Mississippi ties with Louisiana and Alabama for the lowest vaccination rates among children in the …

• March 3, 2022

“It's a plan by teachers, for teachers,” said Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar, a …

• March 3, 2022

Mississippi Senate OKs Pay Bill 'By Teachers, for Teachers'

Mississippi senators acted quickly Wednesday to unanimously pass a teacher pay raise bill, sending it back to the House for possible debate within the next three weeks.

Jackson State University relaunched its Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations on Thursday, Feb. …

• March 2, 2022

JSU Relaunches Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations, Jazz Festival and Camp Kesem at MSU

Jackson State University relaunched its Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the College of Liberal Arts. The original institute opened in 2013, but a …

A Mississippi county has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze …

• March 2, 2022

Mississippi County OKs Contracts for Emmett Till Statue

A Mississippi county has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze statue of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the …

Proposals to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S. were in danger …

• March 2, 2022

Mississippi Teacher Pay Survives Legislators' Political Spat

Proposals to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S. were in danger Tuesday as Mississippi legislators engaged in a political showdown. Hours before a big deadline, Senate …

Employment in Mississippi decreased during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, but …

• March 1, 2022

Economist: Federal Money Boosted Mississippi Income in 2020

Employment in Mississippi decreased during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, but personal income in the state increased during that time because of federal payments that were …

Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba expressed his belief that certain Jackson City Council members may be …

• March 1, 2022

Mayor Lumumba Alleges City-Council Corruption Amid Garbage-Disposal Lawsuit

Amid an ongoing dispute between Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba and the Jackson City Council over garbage-disposal contracts, the mayor said that he believes certain members of the council have accepted …

Black Democrats said Monday that the bill could squelch honest discussion of history. Democratic Rep. …

• March 1, 2022

Mississippi House Panel OKs Limits on Teaching About Race

A Mississippi House committee divided along lines of race and party Monday in advancing a bill that would limit how race can be discussed in classrooms.