The Mississippi State Department of Health announced Tuesday that State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH, will resign from his position at the end of July 2022.
A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday charging 18 alleged members of the Simon City Royals gang with a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, narcotics trafficking, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, wire fraud, and money laundering.
After more than six hours of debate and filibuster with 17 attempted amendments and many passionate floor speeches from Black lawmakers, the Republican and white-majority state House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday entitled, "Critical Race Theory: prohibit."