Day: February 2, 2026
68th Grammy’s Recap
By: Chris Malone The Grammys felt different this year. Not louder. Not flashier. Just more… earned. Inside Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the 68th Annual Grammy Awards unfolded less like a television spectacle and more like a gathering where artists openly recognized the work in one another. Hosted once again by Trevor Noah, you could…
Mississippi’s Long War on the Press. A Mississippi Democrat led the charge with his “Eastland Committee”.
By: The People’s Paper MS Attacks on journalists are often treated as modern phenomena: products of cable news, social media, or partisan politics. But in Mississippi, the war on the press has deep roots. Long before terms like “fake news” entered the national vocabulary, Mississippi politicians understood the danger of independent journalism. No figure represents…
Williams Weekly Weather
By: Meteorologist Paul Williams A quick hit of rain will usher in a noticeably colder midweek stretch across Simpson County before temperatures rebound toward the weekend. It is a classic early February pattern of a passing front, a brief chill, and then a warm up for communities from Mendenhall to Magee. The week’s most active…
Editor’s Note:
This three-part Black History Spotlight honors the life’s work of Pamela D. C. Junior, a Mississippi museum leader whose career helped shape how Black history is preserved, interpreted, and shared with the public. At a time when Black history is being challenged, reframed, and removed from public spaces, her story reminds us that truth-telling is…