MFP Contributor
FedEx has fired D’Monterrio Gibson, the Black driver who alleged that two white men chased and shot at him while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022.
The “Heartstopper” graphic novel series will no longer be available to minors at the Columbia-Marion County Public Library after its board agreed to a group of enraged residents’ demands to remove them from the young adult section during a meeting on Friday.
The Columbia-Marion County Public Library has temporarily removed “Heartstopper” from its book shelves after complaints about LGBTQ+ content. The library’s board of directors temporarily pulled the books from the shelves to review them.
The judge hearing a case involving two white men accused of shooting at a Black FedEx delivery driver has ended in a mistrial in Lincoln County, Miss., after a Brookhaven Police officer withheld evidence from the prosecution and defense.
Brett Favre will remain a defendant in the State of Mississippi’s civil lawsuit designed to recover millions in misspent welfare funds, the Mississippi Supreme Court decided in an order Wednesday.
A Black Republican will sit in the Mississippi House when the Legislature reconvenes next January for the first time in 130 years after voters in Tuesday’s GOP primary selected Rodney Hall to represent House District 20.
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann defeated longtime Mississippi Sen. Chris McDaniel in Tuesday’s Republican primaries.
In party primaries across Mississippi on Tuesday, Aug. 8, Democrats and Republicans will choose candidates to represent their parties in statewide, legislative and county offices for the Nov. 7 general election.
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