Opinion | Hidden Homicides: ‘An American Legacy of Violence’
Sean Brown responds to the Jackson Police Department’s failure to report 24 additional homicides in the capital city in 2023.
Sean Brown responds to the Jackson Police Department’s failure to report 24 additional homicides in the capital city in 2023.
Democratic attorney general candidate Greta Kemp Martin says Mississippi needs a “conviction integrity unit” to uncover possible wrongful convictions.
Found dead on the side of a road in South Jackson, Tramaine Green was one of 128 homicides in Jackson in 2020. In her overview introducing the Hinds County chapter of our “(In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women Women and Systemic Barriers” collaboration with the Jackson Advocate, reporter Aliyah Veal tells one family’s story of navigating COVID-19, gun violence and being ignored by police through the pandemic—and the pandemic-magnified causes of crime and inequities that have long affected their path to success.
Mississippi expatriate Kenny Wayne Mason, a popular long-time maître d’ at the Waverly Inn in New York City, moved home to his family in Greenville after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. On Oct. 21, Mason was found shot to death.
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