Mississippi's capital city of Jackson, recently reeling from decades of infrastructure neglect that led to a water crisis, now has garbage bags piling up as the city's leaders are at a standstill ...

Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher. The water system in Jackson, Mississippi, the state’s capital and largest city, failed earlier this week. On Tuesday, most of the city’s ...

A local resident from Jackson, Mississippi takes a break while helping local volunteers with the distribution of bottles of water as city of Jackson and areas around are to go without reliable ...

“It’s their fundamental belief that the people of Jackson don’t deserve to run the city,” he said in an interview. Mississippi is not the first state in which majority-Black cities have ...

Last month, the Department of Justice stepped in to broker a deal between the the city of Jackson and the Mississippi State Department of Health to get the system repaired, appointing a third ...