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FedEx Driver D'Monterrio Gibson
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FedEx Fires Black Driver Who Said White Men Shot at Him While Making Deliveries

FedEx has fired D’Monterrio Gibson, the Black driver who alleged that two white men chased and shot at him while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022.

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Ashton Pittman August 22, 2023
Mugshots of Gregory Case and Brandon Case, with a inset of D’Monterrio Gibson in the center
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Mistrial Declared In Brookhaven FedEx Driver Shooting Trial After Detective Withheld Evidence

The judge hearing a case involving two white men accused of shooting at a Black FedEx delivery driver has ended in a mistrial in Lincoln County, Miss., after a Brookhaven Police officer withheld evidence from the prosecution and defense.

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Ashton Pittman August 17, 2023
Michael Jenkins at a press conference about injuries allegedly from a Rankin County deputy sheriff
MFP Voices

The ‘Goon Squad’ Torture of Eddie Parker And Michael Jenkins Cries For An Uncomfortable Reckoning

The torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker in Rankin County cannot be ignored “if fundamental justice is at all a goal,” Russ Latino writes.

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Russ Latino August 11, 2023
Black and white photo of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till
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Biden Establishing Emmett Till, Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument

President Joe Biden will designate a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley across three sites in Mississippi and Illinois.

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Ashton Pittman July 24, 2023
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Police Violence and Abuse Spark Protests on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Columnist Leo Carney highlights how a pattern of police shootings on the Gulf Coast “negatively affects their families and the entire community as a whole.”

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Leo Carney February 8, 2023
Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley
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U.S. Congress Awards Gold Medal To Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley

The U.S. House of Representatives passed SB 450 to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

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Kayode Crown December 26, 2022
Emmett Till murder trial marker
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I Stand With You, Mississippi: Lack of Emmett Till Justice Makes My Blood Boil

“Civil Rights era murderers still living among us should be hunted down in the same manner as Nazi War criminals,” Melva L. Bradford writes.

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Melva L. Bradford October 12, 2022
Mugshot of Axel Charles Cox in a yellow jumper
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White 23-Year-Old Man indicted for Cross Burning in Harrison County on Gulf Coast

A federal indictment unveiled on Sept. 20, 2022, indicated that 23-year-old Axel Charles Cox “burned a cross in his front yard, and used threatening and racially derogatory remarks towards” five Black neighbors in Harrison County.

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Kayode Crown September 26, 2022
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‘Shake the Trees’: Filmmaker Hopes Emmett Till Film Will Generate New Evidence

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.

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Kayode Crown September 9, 2022
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