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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
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 night of May 14, 1970, was just like any other night on the yard, author Vernon Weakley says. He and other members of Omega
Street outreach workers are doubling as messengers on avoiding infection. But the outbreak hasn’t stopped everyone. Nearly 200 street outreach workers continue to patrol the
University of Mississippi senior Arielle Hudson told the Mississippi Free Press that an assailant beat her brother, Labrandon Baugh, 29, with a baseball bat across from a grocery store in downtown Greenwood on Saturday night.
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