Special to The Mississippi Monitor The site of Vera Mae Pigee’s Beauty Salon on Ashton Street in Clarksdale represents one of the most meaningful yet often understated chapters in the local Civil Rights Movement. Although the building at 407 Ashton Street no...
Special to The Mississippi Monitor For more than 150 years, Coahoma County has been shaped by vibrant Black communities whose influence reaches far beyond the Mississippi Delta. Their labor powered the farms that drove the region’s economy, their creativity...
By: Tally Connelly, UMMC Communications Photos By: Jay Ferchaud, UMMC Communications Mississippi teens, like their peers nationwide, are facing increasing rates of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, creating a growing demand...
By Russ Latino, Magnolia Tribune Judge Robert Whitwell granted Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss motion for a preliminary injunction late Thursday from his bench in that Calhoun County Courthouse. Chambliss was challenging the NCAA’s...
By Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune There are certain places in Mississippi that don’t just hold space — they hold seasons of life. Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport is one of those places. I used to take my sons there when they were little,...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in the appeal filed by former Governor Phil Bryant in his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today, a multi-million-dollar news outlet Bryant...