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An attorney for D’Monterrio Gibson, the FedEx driver who narrowly escaped a shooting on his route in Brookhaven, Miss., earlier this year, has alleged that the Brookhaven Police Department delayed the release of critical documents allowing for the upgraded charges against two Brookhaven men and failed to properly investigate the crime.
Preserving heritage and cultural pride are driving forces for Gloria Gipson Suggs’ visual art.
Brooke Floyd learned of the National Organizing Fellowship she completed this year through People’s Advocacy Institute Executive Director Rukia Lumumba, who encouraged the Jackson, Miss., native to apply.
“What we are witnessing today is the result of decades-long efforts to delegitimize Jackson leadership,” West Ohueri writes.
In Austin, Texas, Publisher Kimberly Griffin accepted a Lion Publishers Community Engagement Award on behalf of the “(In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19 Project” team, which also includes DeAnna Tisdale Johnson, publisher of the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi’s oldest Black newspaper.
The Mississippi Center for Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Jim Crow voting law that Mississippi’s white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life.
A Bolivar County judge has ordered an independent inspection of the Sunset Village apartments just outside Cleveland, Miss., to ensure no threat of gas or carbon monoxide poisoning remains after two people died there in August. Residents continue to live in nearby motels and many warn that living conditions remain unsafe at their units.
Tim Lampkin, whose organization, Higher Purpose Co., purchased an old furniture store in 2019, plans to use the space and adjoining Greyhound bus-repair station to house the company’s new $3-million enterprise.
Rev. Darrick McGowan is the spokesperson for six Mississippians who worked at a solar farm in Connecticut in 2021. They filed a complaint against their employer.
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