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City & County
As Deadline Passes, 16 Candidates Running for Jackson Mayor
As the deadline passes to qualify for the Jackson city elections, 16 candidates are running for mayor of the capital city.
City & County
UPDATED: Lumumba Files Campaign Report, Third Behind Horhn, Graham in Donations
On a major campaign filing date, Mississippi Sen. John Horhn leads, so far, in donations with upwards of $200,000 in donations to date, although he has spent much of it.
City & County
Mississippi GOP Shoots Out 'Shameful' Email About Chokwe Lumumba, Candidate Responds
Last night, the Mississippi GOP sent out an apparently-worried email about the possibility of Chokwe Antar Lumumba winning the capital city's mayor's race.
Politics
Caller to Black JFP Writer: 'I want to offer her a plane ticket back to Africa' (LISTEN)
"I want to offer her a plane ticket back to Africa if she thinks America is so bad. Um, I would love to pay for her ticket. Also tell her …
Politics
Mississippi Women: Time to ‘Personhood’ Donald Trump, Mike Pence
Mississippi women turned back Personhood in 2011. Now, we need to vote against two men likely to limit everything from the birth-control pill to in vitro fertilization, from affordable cancer …
Gentleman Caller: Always About a 'Black Person, a Black Person, a Black Person'
A caller to the Jackson Free Press today complained that we cover far too many black people and now to find some white people to write about.
Music
Hattiesburg Club Owner: State Pressure to Cancel Big Freedia Like 'Footloose'
“I thought to myself that if Miley Cyrus can imitate Freedia at the Emmys, and Freedia can play Jazzfest with hundreds of thousands of people, and have a nationally syndicated …
Politics
Vote Synarus Green For District 72 Tuesday, Sept. 13, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
We encourage registered votes in Mississippi House District 72 to vote for Synarus Green in Tuesday's run-off special election.
Justice
Mississippi Governor Declares April 'Confederate Heritage Month,' No Slavery Mention
Two weeks before the Mississippi Legislature allowed 19 state flag bills to die in committee, Gov. Phil Bryant took out a pen and signed an official governor's proclamation, declaring the …
Music
Big Freedia Back on in Hattiesburg: Names Mississippi a 'Right to Twerk' State
Big Freedia has rescheduled a "Twerkloose" show at the Dollar Box Showroom in Hattiesburg on March 25 after the state pressured the owner last month to cancel the show due …
State
#ConfederateHeritageMonth: Your Essential Primer to How It Blew Up in Mississippi
This month, as I'd hoped would happen when I broke the story, many people around the country—especially historians—are using the hashtag #ConfederateHistoryMonth to share facts about the Confederacy.
City & County
Forest Hill Band Skit Causes Stir; School Has Old History of Offensive Displays
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba is rebuking Forest Hill High School after social media exploded this morning over a Friday-night half-time skit depicting students supposedly shooting police officers on the field …
Editor's Note
EDITOR'S NOTE: Of Breast Cancer and the Warrior’s Life
I feel like a warrior ready to turn the strength I’ve honed over my lifetime to my own health and spirit and that of my loved ones, especially my hero …
City & County
Mayor Lumumba on Murders: Police Cannot 'Enter the Minds and Stop These People'
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba sent out a statement addressing several murders that roiled the capital city over the weekend—from a preacher killed in the Washington Addition to a teenager killed …
City & County
City: Man, 62, May Have Died After Altercation with Jackson Police
The City of Jackson sent out a cryptic and short press statement at 5:12 p.m. today, indicating that an older man may have died from an encounter with Jackson police …
Rush to Judgment: Trying Kids As Adults
Tyler Wayne Edmonds took his last seventh-grade exam at Fifth Street Junior High School in West Point on a Thursday and was confident he had done well. So far, 2003 …
A Soldier's Story: The JFP Interview with James Meredith
James Meredith talks to the Jackson Free Press about identity education, Barack Obama, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin.
Personhood
Clinic Remains Open
State attorneys for the abortion-clinic law say the governor and lieutenant governor's statements about its intent shouldn't matter because they did not author the controversial bill. The judge may not …
Politics
Romney: GOP Not 'Rich' Party
In Jackson Monday, Mitt Romney said the GOP isn't the party of the rich—and used the wait staff to make a point to the audience.
City & County
JPD Officers Indicted for Murder Present for Earlier Civilian Shootings
A grand jury has indicted Desmond Barney, Anthony Fox and Lincoln Lampley for second-degree murder of George Robinson.
