Fani Willis’ Testimony Evokes Long-Standing Frustrations For Black Women Leaders
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor was a familiar scene for many Black women.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor was a familiar scene for many Black women.
Three national pathologists say Mississippi’s chief medical examiner should have labeled the cause of death as homicide for Damien Cameron, a Black Braxton, Miss., resident whose mother alleges that two white Rankin County deputies knelt on his back for over 20 minutes, causing his death in July 2021.
Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.
R.C. Anderson, 65, went to prison more than 40 years ago after he drove his car to a house his friends burglarized in Madison County. He did not learn of the legal provision to erase the crime from his records until recently.
The search for new evidence to bring legal accountability for those involved in the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era continues, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp says.
D’Monterrio Gibson, 24 years old, shared a letter with the Mississippi Free Press containing death threats directed toward him.
Former Jackson police officer Anthony Fox will serve up to five years in state prison for the manslaughter of George Robinson, 62. Earlier this month, a jury found Fox guilty of culpable negligence manslaughter in the 2019 beating death of Robinson.
Special Chancery Court Judge Larry E. Roberts ruled on July 8, 2022, that Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba cannot veto a no-vote of the city council. The ruling is the latest in the ongoing face-off between the mayor and the city council regarding setting up a garbage-disposal contract for the City.
“John Doe,” a Black former student of the UMMC School of Medicine, sued the school in 2021 on racial and sex discrimination allegations following his dismissal in 2019.
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