Unearthing and Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History With Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr.
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.
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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.
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
Covid-19 is showing us what ending mass incarceration could look like. Some judges and prosecutors like what they see. A couple of months ago, the
A lawsuit accuses MDOC and Mississippi’s two largest prisons of “taking inadequate steps to prevent the infection and mitigate an outbreak of COVID-19.”
When Washington Governor Jay Inslee closed schools statewide on Friday, March 13 until at least the end of April, he assured state residents that school
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves rejecting calls from a bipartisan coalition of criminal-justice reform organizations to reduce the State’s prison population. If he does not, the New York-based FWD.us warned in a late April report, nearly every prisoner in State custody could have the virus by May’s end, and around 200 could die.
Get lit, howl and mind your paws. Humans are a social species, and physical interaction keeps us healthy. Or, as the late Bill Withers wrote, “The
A North Mississippi psychiatrist alleges that a hospital fired her after she refused to admit more elderly patients into a unit with a woman she suspected had COVID-19.
When Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves created Restart Mississippi, a commission to advise him on reopening the economy during the COVID-19 crisis, he chose 16 business leaders and corporate executives who have personally given more than $330,000 to his various political campaigns since 2008.
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