Staffing and volunteers with the non-profit organization Big House Books come together to answer the book requests of inmates ...

The Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to give parents paid parental leave. Similar legislation has been filed in the Senate.

Special to Wesson News Children’s of Mississippi patients have a surprise waiting for them at the Kathy and Joe Sanderson ...

What other book could it be? There’s simply not another. Clarksdale-native Wright Thompson is the author of this crown jewel ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, author of “The First State of Being,” and Rebecca Lee Kunz, illustrator of “Chooch Helped,” are the 2025 recipients of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most ...

The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture presented its 18th Book of the Year award to author Peggy Thomas for “The ...

Rochelle "Shelly" Dahmer writes an illustrated biography about her husband's slain grandfather, Vernon Dahmer, with 9- to 12-year-olds in mind.

Educator and author Omo Moses was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents, Janet and Bob Moses, had moved in 1969. In the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Children’s Museum (MCM) was nominated as one of the Best Children’s Museums by USA Today for the 2025 Reader’s Choice Travel Awards. Winners will be ...

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Thunder rout short-handed Grizzlies 130-106 for their 11th straight victory The NAACP ends its challenge over Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city Court says it’s ending ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...