‘You White People Don’t Get It’: Mississippi’s Long, Ugly Road to Changing Its State Flag
Mississippi lawmakers are once again contemplating retiring the 1894 flag, which voters opted to keep in that 2001 referendum by a 2-to-1 margin.
Mississippi lawmakers are once again contemplating retiring the 1894 flag, which voters opted to keep in that 2001 referendum by a 2-to-1 margin.
Officer Officer Canyon Boykin shot and killed Ricky Ball in Columbus, Miss., in 2015. Attorney General Lynn Fitch dropped the charges.
In 2017, Marc Davis called 911 because he was injured after a car accident. Shortly after, a Petal, Miss., police officer shot him three times, killing him. His family wants answers.
MDOC nominee Burl Cain’s controversial past includes the case o the Angola Three, one of whom spent longer in solitary confinement under Cain than any other prisoner in U.S. history.
JACKSON, Miss.—Stephany Brown used to have a wide variety of grocery-store options to choose from in south Jackson but not any longer. The Kroger on
Republican and Democratic leaders in Mississippi are accusing Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba of using the COVID-19 crisis to ban open carry without due deference to the law.
As many as 18,000 Mississippi prisoners could contract COVID-19, and nearly 200 could die unless the governor takes action, a top criminal-justice reform organization claims.
Valdez Market sits in the Country Club Village Shopping Center on Old Canton Road, where it took over the site after a Winn-Dixie closed, virtually straddling the border between the capital city and its northern suburb of Ridgeland. It is an area that has seen demographic shifts in recent years, particularly in the large influx of Spanish-speaking residents in the area.
Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons’ decision to order churches in his Delta town to stop in-person worship services to slow the spread of COVID-19 has drawn support from some local pastors and criticism from the governor and U.S. Attorney General.
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