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Higher education officials consider top picks for JSU’s next president

By CANDICE WILDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY CANDICE WILDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sun,03/15/26-4:42PM, 110 Reads 6,018 Statewide
Officials tasked with selecting and naming the next Jackson State University president plan to choose three top candidates next week, March 19-20, and invite them to the campus for a second round of interviews in mid-April.
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St. Stanislaus star Max Baria, with ball, grabs a rebound over Booneville's Elijah Dukes during the Boys Class 3A semifinal game, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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‘He saved my life.’ High school basketball star Max Baria has filled a void for his family

By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sun,03/15/26-4:38PM, 415 Reads 36,293 Statewide
Max Baria, a 17-year-old high school senior from Bay St. Louis, is a good-looking, soft-spoken, highly intelligent young man, who emerged this basketball season as one of the best high school players in Mississippi.
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Civil rights veteran John Perkins, who preached racial reconciliation, dead at 95

By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI TODAY JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sun,03/15/26-3:38PM, 102 Reads 5,150 Statewide
“He will always be remembered as one who tried to get the races to come together,” said Constance Slaughter-Harvey.
Pioneering pastor and civil rights leader John Perkins left the world Friday, but his family and friends say his light will long remain.
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Corey Wiggins, federal co-chairman for the Delta Regional Authority, speaks during a U.S. Rural Prosperity Commission field hearing, hosted by Brookings and AEl, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Wiggins tapped to lead Tougaloo College

By CANDICE WILDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY CANDICE WILDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sun,03/15/26-1:48PM, 150 Reads 6,176 Statewide
Corey Wiggins, a Hazlehurst native and federal co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority, will be the next president of Tougaloo College effective July 1.
He will be the 15th president in the school’s 157-year-history, succeeding Donzell Lee.
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Higher education officials consider top picks for JSU’s next president

‘He saved my life.’ High school basketball star Max Baria has filled a void for his family

Civil rights veteran John Perkins, who preached racial reconciliation, dead at 95

Wiggins tapped to lead Tougaloo College

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