‘The system is not designed for you to win’

For over 20 years, Stephanie Mallette has served as a public defender working on part-time contracts with Oktibbeha and Webster counties in Mississippi.

News, Mississippi News, Civil RIghts, Prison Reform, PrisonJerry MitchellOctober 30, 2022Duane Lake, Public defenders, underfunded public defender system, district attorney, Gideon v Wainwright, free lawyers, indigent defendents, Mississippi, Sixth amendment center, plead guilty, indicted

How processed and preserved foods have changed our tastes and waists over time

For years, retired pharmacist Judy Wolverton Palmer was addicted to peanut butter, digging into any jar she could find.

She battled both weight and health issues, including chronic pain, skin issues, prediabetes, asthma and gastrointestinal problems.

News, Mississippi News, Mississippi Spotlight, Public HealthKatherine MitchellNovember 15, 2021Mississippi, food pantry, Mississippi delta, Lexington food pantry, Processed foods, weight gain, diabetes, food addiction, food industry, added sugar, sodium, obesity, brain, poverty

Lexington Pantry seeks to end hunger and give hope

Harvest time in the Mississippi Delta, a rolling emerald expanse of crops. The romantic vision is like a mirage against the glaring light of the nutritional disparity borne by residents here – many for generations.

News, Mississippi News, Mississippi SpotlightKatherine MitchellNovember 9, 2021Lexington, Mississippi, food pantry, Mississippi delta, Lexington food pantry, Saints College, Johnny Black, W. Ralph Eubanks

Tupelo nurse practitioner adds up COVID’s cost in lives and job security

Janice Driskell is a nurse practitioner, who works at in a clinic in Tupelo.

Mississippi News, Coronavirus Pandemic, coronavirusKatherine MitchellJanuary 25, 2021Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, Coronavirus and Mississippi, Covid and Mississippi, covid-19, Mississippi, Jackson, health officials, Q&A, pandemic, PPE, Janice Driskell, immunocompromised

Nonprofit COO expands minority health outreach to include rapid COVID-19 testing

Mauda L. Monger is chief operating officer at My Brother’s Keeper Inc. in Jackson

From the Frontlines: Emergency nurse faces daily battle with COVID-19

Lacey Ward is a registered nurse in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Adult Emergency Department.

Two months after mask mandate ends, Mississippi sees record ‘uncontrolled spread’ of COVID-19

Since Gov. Tate Reeves lifted a statewide mask mandate two months ago, COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed to record levels in Mississippi, where there is now an “uncontrolled spread” of the disease.

COVID-19 kills twice as many in Mississippi’s poorest counties, three times higher than the wealthiest

The first plague hit long before the second one struck this year.

coronavirus, Coronavirus PandemicGuest UserNovember 11, 2020COVID-1 9, Poverty, Mississippi

Social upheaval has Mississippi voters searching for the soul of America

In a state where Christianity has been a weapon in the hands of those justifying segregation and the like, some are now summoning the faith as a tool to fight for social justice.