Mississippi

Southern Bancorp Community Partners, a loan fund and Community Development Financial Institution headquartered in Arkansas, has hired its next president, Anthony Young. The organization initiated a nationwide search for a new leader after its former president Dr. Karama Neal was…

In the mid-1920s, a man whose name appears lost to posterity decided to travel from St. Louis to New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River. By walking the Mississippi, that is, courtesy of custom-made pontoons attached to his feet.…

The Hope Policy Institute reports that finds there is a 26.3 percent gap between Black and white homeownership in Arkansas — higher than the gap during the 2008 housing crisis. The report found that COVID-19 exacerbated the disparate impacts of…

The City of Little Rock is now offering hotel vouchers at local Little Rock hotels, to residents of Louisiana and Mississippi that were impacted by Hurricane Ida, to help with costs of seeking shelter. Impacted residents must provide a form…

According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. The extremely dangerous storm is expected to make landfall in southeastern Louisiana in the early afternoon today and…

Gulfport, Miss.-based construction company Roy Anderson Corp. has received a $200 million contract to build a hotel and casino complex for Southland Gaming Casino and Hotel in West Memphis. Southland owner Delaware North, of Buffalo, awarded the contract to Roy…