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.
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.
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.
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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