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Lucinda Wade-Robinson at her south Jackson home Monday, July 7, 2025. Wade-Robinson talks of losing her son Zachary Robinson, then 22, to gun violence in 2014, and how she was denied compensation for his funeral by the attorney general's office. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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Saving for a future, paying for a funeral: Why are many families of young crime victims shut out of state compensation?
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,07/29/25-12:52PM , 425 Reads 7,807 Statewide
Lucinda Wade-Robinson watched her 22-year-old son, Zachary, hit the pavement feet from her front door on April 29, 2014. She saw the shooter and his friends hightail it to the highway. Her neighbor helped her son into a her car as he bled out.
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Mother drives 45 minutes for day care. Another pays more than her rent. Welcome to Mississippi’s child care crisis
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,07/24/25-2:22PM , 382 Reads 7,333 Statewide
“The lack of affordable child care prevents employers from keeping their workforce. And yet the state of Mississippi wants people to go back to work.”
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Manuel Killebrew, funeral home director at Delta Burial Corp., discusses the 100-year history of the business in Marks, Miss., on Friday, July 10, 2025. The Black-owned funeral home has served generations of residents in the Mississippi Delta. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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A Black-owned funeral home in the Mississippi Delta is celebrating a century of service
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sat,07/19/25-10:22AM , 525 Reads 18,989 Statewide
In 1925, a body hung, suspended in a village square outside Lambert, Mississippi.
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Lawmakers passed bimonthly pay for Mississippi teachers in 2022. Just four districts use it.
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,07/08/25-6:30PM , 365 Reads 7,562 Statewide

The last weeks of January are difficult for Mississippi teachers. Mention of the stretch will draw audible gasps. By then, paychecks last deposited in mid-December are stretched thin.
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