Great reporting by @adriawalkr on an Alabama town refusing to recognize an elected Black mayor

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out. Don't miss this fascinating and important story from @adriawalkr

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in Mississippi. The interim state epidemiologist says it's because record hot temps are forcing people inside and school's back in session. https://t.co/dltOATBGIy

A not-so-great takeaway from last week’s Zoom mess... If the company had employed broader policy language, it could have trained AI with user content data *without* opt-in consent—and faced essentially no legal risk in the process.

New data shows that another 22k Mississippians have been dropped from Medicaid. During the first wave of disenrollments, 29k people were terminated from the agency's rolls, bringing the total so far to 50k. https://t.co/odIDwaGaP8

A pregnant prison guard says she was forced to stay at work for hours after contraction-like pain began — leading to her stillbirth. Now, Texas is fighting a lawsuit, in part because the “defending the unborn” state says the fetus had no clear rights. https://t.co/NrS1hYHKBS

“Major, if the hospital calls me to come get that baby, I’m going to get that baby.” Roberta Bell lost her job after agreeing to care for an incarcerated woman's newborn. Now she wants to start a center to help others in need. My latest for @MSTODAYnews

If Alabama’s experience foreshadows Mississippi’s future, expect the EPA to find plenty of toxic “forever chemicals” in the drinking water. https://t.co/MiOPypFWA3

Months after Nanih Waiya, a sacred site, was vandalized, Choctaw officials still seek answers My latest for @MSTODAYnews

“I wanted to continue to tell stories about Black food and Black foodways, but also have them connected to our health, as well.” I talked to Growing Resilience in the South (GRITS) founder Sadé Meeks in my latest for @MSTODAYnews.

spent months reporting on families across America who have lost children to drowning. What I found is that in America, swimming is a luxury rather than a public good. https://t.co/rd0Mg5ZTsd

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://t.co/PhO0TkEpBi

Read the full story from me at @MSTodayNews and @mrsimon22 and @agnel88_philip at @ProPublica here: https://t.co/cClWoQ9wZv

BREAKING: Teachers sue over Tennessee law restricting what they can teach about race, gender, and bias

All this talk about @OppenheimerFilm but nothing about the sacrifice during this era. These are just a few articles I’ve done on uranium on Navajo this year. Haven’t written anything as of late because it’s an ongoing issue that is never ending https://t.co/NSSY5AGkjR

Officers working for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative were ordered to push "small children and nursing babies" back into the Rio Grande, according to an email from a trooper "I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane"

Gannett's How We Live team + couple more in Northeast Region earned 10 awards: 3 firsts, 2 seconds, 4 thirds, 1 hm. Praise @matthewkorfhage @kpowers01 @sammykgibbons @RICARDOKAUL @Chris_Maag @tyee23 @adriawalkr @ByKatieBorrelli @RahChaChow @SethEHarrison @byrobbell @PeterKramer

Weeks after St. Dominic announced the closure of its behavioral services unit, two metro-area hospitals are too full to admit psychiatric patients.

beyoncé shouted mississippi out at her toronto show last night. southern solidarity >>>

It's @adriawalkr's first byline at @MSTODAYnews, and it's naturally a harrowing and important story about her hometown. https://t.co/6rWSGBZSCW