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It's the women who are going to save us.

Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.

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The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, April 9, 2024, that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother’s life is at stake.

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A Yazoo County subdivision was not at risk of flooding Wednesday, contrary to initial reports.

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'Opportunities to learn later in life have been associated with a host of positive health outcomes. These include being less socially isolated and staying sharp mentally,' David R. Buys and Aaron Guest write.

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Mississippi state Rep. Zakiya Summers, D-Jackson, spoke on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, against a bill that would limit where transgender people can use bathrooms or locker rooms in public buildings.

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Mississippi House Speaker Jason White, R-West, vowed on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, to continue efforts to pass an education funding formula overhaul with the INSPIRE Act after the Mississippi Senate killed two prior attempts.

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'Aid workers are attacked in a lot of places, but the amount of attention this receives differs greatly based on the nationality of the aid workers in question,' Elizabeth Stites says.

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Activists John Osborne, John C. Barnett and Fred Chambliss held a rally on April 9, 2024, outside the governor’s mansion in Jackson, Miss., urging Gov. Tate Reeves to remove Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey from his position unless he resigns.

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The local sheriff warned residents in Mississippi to flee over fears that a Yazoo County levee would fail as storms brought high winds and the threat of tornadoes.

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'The revelation in September 2023 that Black land-grant universities have been shortchanged $13 billion over the past three decades ... starkly illuminates the urgent need to finally address this systemic injustice,' Duvalier Malone writes.

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With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than legalized nationwide by the 1973 court ruling, Trump made clear Monday that he would not be leading the push for a federal abortion ban as he vies for his second term in the Oval Office.

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Monday's partial solar eclipse was visible through clouds for some Mississippians on April 8, 2024.

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On April 10, Rankin County Circuit Court Judge Steve Ratcliff will sentence 6 former Rankin County, Miss. law-enforcement officers known as the “Goon Squad” on state charges related to the torture of 2 Black men during an illegal home raid Jan. 24, 2023.

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'For me, just like the ancient Maya, the total solar eclipse will be a chance to not only look up but also to consider both past and future,' Kimberly H. Breuer writes.

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The tornado that destroyed Ida Cartlidge’s home last March killed 14 of Rolling Fork’s roughly 1,700 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the country’s poorest regions.

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