“One cannot make a good choice when historically, both choices end badly for people of color.” In early August 2019 in Canton, Miss,four of my
In the last 12 years, signs commemorating the murder of Emmett Till have been vandalized dozens of times causing thousands of dollars in property damage.
In January 2017, Ronnie Shorter called to check in on his mom before he went to bed. He heard a noise outside his house, so
My son Robert was one of more than 45,000 people who died of an opioid overdose in 2017. He was a precious young man, only
Dale Gibbs is no ordinary woman, at least not after the overnight events of May 14, 1970. Only 17, she was in Ripley, Miss., with
On Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, Lillie Richardson waited all night for Josh to come home. Her son had gone to a party at the Columbus,
The weekend I met Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr. was the 82nd anniversary of the lynching of his then-29-year-old father Elwood, an Oxford sharecropper, on Sept.
The weekend I met Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr. was the 82nd anniversary of the lynching of his then-29-year-old father Elwood, an Oxford sharecropper, on Sept.
The Confederate Flag drapes around the plastic of my orthodontic retainer. Before securing the retainer to the roof of my mouth, I sometimes ask: how
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