Downtown Fayette, Mississippi. Photograph: Eric Shelton/Center for Public Integrity/The GuardianThe poorest and blackest state in the US declined to expand Medicaid, leaving many citizens without coverage by April SimpsonThis story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit news organization that investigates inequality. Jabriel Muhammad pays up to $40 when he sees a doctor at the community health center in Jefferson county in rural south-western Mississippi. And he goes to the center only when he is really ill.

MoviesObituarySusan Anspach obituaryActor who starred in Five Easy Pieces and Play It Again, SamWith her vibrant appearance in Bob Rafelson’s landmark road movie Five Easy Pieces (1970), Susan Anspach, who has died aged 75, emerged at the same time as her co-star Jack Nicholson as a significant figure in the new Hollywood of the 1970s. However, Anspach, unlike Nicholson, saw her film career dwindle after a decade that has been called Hollywood’s last golden age.

Children's booksChildren's booksTop 10 literary rodentsFrom Stuart Little to the beloved Ratty, author Kate DiCamillo picks 10 of the best rodents she has known and loved in children's books – and who have inspired her to go on and create her own in the form of Despereaux the mouse and Ulysses the squirrel Find out more about Kate's Flora and Ulysses which has been longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize 2014

Ask HadleyFashionCindy Crawford’s daughter is just 16 and already all over the catwalks. In her weekly advice column, our style expert asks if celebrity parents should allow their kids to enter the limelight?Who or what is Kaia Gerber? Roger, by email I rather enjoy, Roger, that you thought it easier to write to me with this question as opposed to typing into something I believe is called – reaches for old lady spectacles – “Google”.

‘Stripping off the lightweight signifiers’: Corinne Bailey Rae at Ladbroke Hall in London. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer‘Stripping off the lightweight signifiers’: Corinne Bailey Rae at Ladbroke Hall in London. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The ObserverKitty Empire's artist of the weekCorinne Bailey RaeReviewLadbroke Hall, London Showcasing her fourth album, Black Rainbows, the singer-songwriter moves away from her soulful roots to a more anguished, angry sound that is also joyful and cathartic Corinne Bailey Rae wanders the stage wordlessly, wafting handheld percussion instruments at amplifiers and members of her band as though burning sage to cleanse the space.