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[ October 15, 2025 ] Commentary: Two suspicious Mayoral Elections being challenged Local
[ October 15, 2025 ] Mississippi school homecoming celebrations turn deadly as 8 people are killed in separate shootings Local
[ October 15, 2025 ] American Heart Association celebrates the opening of the Tougaloo College Community Pantry, named in honor of Robert Smith, M.D Local
[ October 9, 2025 ] Senate District 26 Forum held at Tougaloo College Local
[ October 9, 2025 ] Deaths, Disappearances, and Danger in Immigrant – Detention In partnership with American Community Media – National Briefing Series National

State-sponsored discrimination in minority contracting, Part 3

By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, In the first two parts of this series, we have made crystal clear, using the state’s own data, that Mississippi awards contracts for goods and services to white companies (non-minorities) […]

Commentary: State-sponsored discrimination in Minority Contracting, Part 2

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, In Part 1 of this article, published by The Mississippi Link in the July 25, 2024 issue, we laid out the obvious and ugly discrimination against minority contractors, and thereby […]

Mississippi must move quickly on a court-ordered redistricting, say voting rights attorneys

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By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press, Mississippi should work quickly to fulfill the court-ordered redrawing of some legislative districts to ensure more equitable representation for Black residents, attorneys for voting rights groups said in […]

The Tennessee Tribune Publisher Rosetta Perry celebrates milestone birthday

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By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Rosetta Miller-Perry, publisher of The Tennessee Tribune and long-time member of The National Newspaper Publishers Association, celebrated her 90th birthday on July 8, 2024. When asked by The Mississippi Link how […]

AMR “Earn While you Learn” program hires and presents certificates to 13 newly trained EMTs at graduation

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By Jackie Hampton, Publisher, Ambulance services nationwide, including the state of Mississippi, are grappling with a severe shortage of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) and paramedics. American Medical Response, (AMR) serving Hinds County had a graduation […]

What a community pillar looks like: “Thank God for His continuous mercy and grace over my life,” Rev Argustus “AG” Harper, Sr.

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, First things first: First, you come through the daughter, then you come through two granddaughters, and only then do you meet the patriarch of the family, Reverend Argustus Harper affectionately […]

Buttigieg tours Mississippi civil rights site and says transportation is key to equity in the US

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By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday toured the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi’s capital city, saying afterward that transportation is important to securing […]

No justice for Rasheem Carter – twenty months and ticking – Numerous law agencies investigating horrifying act in Taylorsville – fear and suspicion remain

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, The Mississippi Link newspaper returned to Taylorsville on June 12, 2024, to seek an update on the Rasheem Carter disappearance, which remains unsolved twenty months after it happened. Per the […]

Fake vs real/opposing viewpoints’ rallies seeking justice for Dau Mabil, attract national attention

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By Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, Recently, persons who rallied in two different events in Jackson, Miss. sought answers to what happened to Dau Mabil, Sundanese, Belhaven Heights man – who fled from a […]

Deep South prison populations and their High Courts: On this Juneteenth, remember our ongoing sizzling truths and find the will to act on them

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, In September 2021, following the 2020 Census, the Brookings Institution reported that 58% of our nation’s African-American population resided in the South. More granular Census data reveals that between 35.9% […]