‘Home Town’ Reflects an Incomplete Picture of Laurel’s History of Disenfranchisement
Jonathan Odell writes that HGTV home-rehabilitation show “Home Town” sweeps Laurel’s racist past and gentrified present under the rug.
Jonathan Odell writes that HGTV home-rehabilitation show “Home Town” sweeps Laurel’s racist past and gentrified present under the rug.
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.
Former Mississippi art teacher and “Justice for Emmett Till” advocate Sonny Strauss shares his journey of digging into his own ancestry, where he learned that his ancestors were some of the first wealthy, white, slave-owning individuals in Virginia.
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.
A Black Republican will sit in the Mississippi House when the Legislature reconvenes next January for the first time in 130 years after voters in Tuesday’s GOP primary selected Rodney Hall to represent House District 20.
“As these (Confederate) monuments were erected, the vote increased for members of the then-racist Democratic Party, and people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas,” Alexander N. Taylor writes.
Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.
Six white Rankin County, Miss., law enforcement officers accused of beating and assaulting two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, pleaded guilty to 13 federal civil rights charges in federal court Thursday.
President Joe Biden honored Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley with the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Monument.
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