Brittany Brown

Labor organizers say the Election Day ballot aiming to make “right-to-work” part of the state constitution puts workers at the mercy of employers.

The local novelist doubles down on the sex in his latest.

In a historic vote on Tuesday, Memphis Starbucks workers at the Poplar and Highland location voted 11-3 to unionize.

It’s day two of a workers’ strike at Maximus call center in Hattiesburg. MPB’s Brittany Brown reports on why employees are striking and what their demands are.

Advocates in New Orleans work to curb gun violence by focusing on prevention and community needs over policing and aim to spread it across the Gulf South.

In the wake of bomb threats to HBCUs, Jackson State’s President Thomas Hudson says campus safety improvements are needed. The price tag? $12 million.

Rising coronavirus cases in Mississippi have caused even further delays in the state court system. Earlier this month, the Mississippi Supreme Court extended a COVID-19 emergency administrative order, allowing judges to postpone trials through Oct. 8.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the state, the Mississippi Supreme Court is allowing judges to delay trials until October.

Advocacy organizations in Mississippi are going directly into Hispanic and immigrant communities to provide access to COVID vaccines.

The family of Dominique Clayton, the 32-year-old mother of four who was shot and killed by former Oxford police officer Matthew Kinne, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Oxford Police Department, the City of Oxford and Kinne on Thursday.

Hinds County Sheriff Lee Vance tested positive for COVID-19 on July 22 although he was fully vaccinated. He was recovering at his home.

Mississippi Department of Corrections has suspended visitation in its prisons in an effort to protect them from the COVID-19 Delta variant.

Visitation at all Mississippi Department of Corrections prisons has been suspended, Commissioner Burl Cain said in an internal memo Monday.

As the Delta variant continues to spread, a Hinds County detention facility is experiencing a COVID outbreak among detained people and staff.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an official panelist in this year’s Mississippi Book Festival on Aug. 21.

After 15 months, MDOC issued a new visitation policy, but families of incarcerated Mississippians say it’s not enough.

Award-winning novelist Deesha Philyaw is a featured guest at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival.

Soul food is rooted in the creative ways enslaved African Americans in the Deep South morphed meager food rations into a home-cooked meals. Table 6-4-72 brings this history to life as the only soul food restaurant in Water Valley.

Since 2013, faculty at the University of Mississippi have been researching the university’s history and connection to slavery.

As COVID-19 numbers soar, family members say Mississippi prison officials are not being transparent about how they’re ensuring the safety of prisoners.