#Mississippi election officials argue against quick work on drawing new majority-Black legislative districts (from The Associated Press) #msleg apnews.com/article/160283…

#Mississippi must move quickly on a court-ordered redistricting, say voting rights attorneys (from The Associated Press) #msleg apnews.com/article/2113b8…

Federal appeals court affirms #Mississippi's ban on #voting after some felonies, including timber theft (from The Associated Press) #msleg #msgov #mselex apnews.com/article/2c0cce…

#Mississippi can wait until 2025 to reset legislative districts that dilute Black voting strength, judges say (from The Associated Press) #msleg #mselex apnews.com/article/2486f8…

Federal judge rejects GOP challenge of #Mississippi timeline for counting absentee ballots (from The Associated Press) #mselex #msleg apnews.com/article/640c93…

Watch: From the U.K. to the U.S, from Russia to Venezuela, cats are making themselves at home and helping to pull in the crowds at tourist spots and historic locations around the world.

Periodic flooding hurts #Mississippi. But could mitigation there hurt downstream in #Louisiana? (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/435afd…

#Water crisis in #Mississippi capital developed during failures in state and federal oversight, watchdog says (from The Associated Press) #msleg #msgov apnews.com/article/6f4770…

"Is this America?" Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer challenged politics with a 1964 Democratic National Convention speech that still resonates today apnews.com/article/fannie…

Hamer didn’t make it part of her DNC speech but "she also was an advocate for bodily autonomy," Emily Wagster Pettus reports. "A white doctor had performed a hysterectomy w/out consent," treatment so common to Black women that "Hamer called it a 'Mississippi appendectomy.'"

Re: Clinton’s joke about McDonald’s. This plaque is on the downtown Little Rock McD’s.

Jackson State’s Sonic Boom of the South played Teena Marie’s “Portuguese Love” during their field show at the 2024 National Battle of the Bands: (h/t: Showtime)

#Mississippi ex-deputy seeks shorter sentence in “Goon Squad” racist torture of 2 Black men (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/219629…

Linda Deutsch, The Associated Press trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies at 80: apne.ws/OekdiqR

#Mississippi high court rejects the latest appeal by a man on death row since 1994 (from The Associated Press) #deathpenalty apnews.com/article/28ae93…

#Confederate monument that was covered by tarps for 4 years is moved from downtown Grenada, #Mississippi (from The Associated Press) #msleg apnews.com/article/e74242…

AP PHOTOS: #Germany springs to life in vivid scenes of nature (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/6caac5…

Justice Department opens civil rights probe of sheriff's office in Rankin County, #Mississippi, after torture of 2 Black men by officers, including some who called themselves the #GoonSquad (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/2554c2…

Grenada, #Mississippi, mayor says a #Confederate monument is staying in storage during a lawsuit (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/e89048…

Brett #Favre to appear before US House panel looking at #welfare misspending (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/fe22a2…