Nation

The first president of Mississippi State University – back when it was known as Mississippi A & M – was Stephen D. Lee, a famous Confederate general. Now the university is home to the papers of the most famous general on the other side of the Civil War – Ulysses S. Grant. MPB’s Cari Gervin visited Starkville to get the story.

On Monday night, the University of Mississippi received a special visit in honor of Black History Month - General Colin Powell. From Oxford, Cari Gervin reports.

The Department of Labor announced that unemployment in Mississippi jumped to 7.6 percent in December, above the national average. Lafayette County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, but that may soon change. From Oxford, Cari Gervin reports.

Yesterday we brought you the story of a group of University of Mississippi students who traveled to Washington, D.C. with the director of the William Winter Institute. But although they had tickets to the inauguration, things didn’t quite go as planned as MPB’s Sandra Knispel reports.

The inauguration festivities will begin in a few hours’ time in the nation’s capital today. MPB’s Sandra Knispel reports from Oxford on a group that has front-row seats to history.