37 years ago Mississippi Burning (1988) directed by Alan Parker premiered in Washington, D.C. “From its opening sequence, Mississippi Burning convincingly recaptures the racial dread of 1964 Mississippi. But the verisimilitude is soon sacrificed for a bogus conclusion: … the film amounts to a cinematic lynching of the truth.” Jack E. White | History of Cinema

Brandon, Mississippi has been selected for the third largest economic development project in state history: AVAIO Digital is investing $6 billion to build a data center campus at the East Metropolitan Center Business and Industrial Park in Rankin County. This project will create 60 direct, high-tech jobs once completed - furthering the transformation of our economy to the jobs of the future. Construction and other related industries will lead to hundreds of additional indirect jobs. It’s more pr