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Pastoral Scenes of a Gallant South: Lynching Victims Finally Memorialized in Oxford

Valerie Reaves, the Higginbottom family historian who lives in the Atlanta area, mourns not only the loss of Elwood, but an entire branch of her family, she said on April 2, 2022, in her speech at the dedication of a long-overdue lynching memorial in the county where at least seven documented lynchings occurred. 

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Grace Marion April 26, 2022
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Activist Mulls FedEx Boycott for Treatment of Black Worker Chased and Fired On in Brookhaven

Many are comparing the Jan. 24, 2020, alleged chase and shooting that D’Monterrio Gibson reported facing at the hands of two white men in Brookhaven, Miss., with the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery on Feb. 15, 2020, in Brunswick, Ga., by a white father-and-son duo and a neighbor. 

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Kayode Crown February 15, 2022
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Hattiesburg Mayor Addresses Police Shooting of Teenager Near High School

For the first time since one or more Hattiesburg Police officers shot a Black teenager multiple times near Hattiesburg High School a week ago, Mayor Toby Barker spoke out today.

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Ashton Pittman February 3, 2021
Mississippi President Reginald Virgil, seen here speaking to a crowd at the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Aug. 2017 about the white supremacist rampage that happened in Charlottesville, Va., that month
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Officer Shot Black Teen Outside Hattiesburg High, Activists Say, But Police Silent Days Later

Black Lives Matter Mississippi activists in Forrest County, Miss., are demanding “justice” and “transparency” after they say a Hattiesburg Police Officer shot a 14-year-old Black boy “multiple times” near Hattiesburg High School last Wednesday.

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Ashton Pittman February 1, 2021

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