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.
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.
Dr. James Pratt Jr. will speak at the inaugural education conference of the Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment.
Mississippi House Bill 1020 is “racially discriminatory” because it shifts “authority over the county’s criminal justice system away from democratically-elected judges and prosecutors elected by Black voters,” the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday as it filed a complaint in federal court.
The Richland Police Department has fired Officer Joshua Hartfield for allegedly participating in the beating and torture of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker.
Jerry B. Townsend, an Oxford, Miss., native, writes that the men of color in America, especially Black men, continue to face racism sprouting from centuries of oppressive history: “We all share the experience of racism based on the color of our skin, no matter the shade.”
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael K. Randolph recused himself as his colleagues were set to consider House Bill 1020, the recent Mississippi law that gives him the power to appoint unelected judges to serve in Hinds County—the majority-Black home of the City of Jackson.
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