UPDATE: 5:30 P.M. EST The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP has announced that the man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi is 54-year-old Otis Byrd.…
As many throughout the nation continue rise up to let their voices be heard against social injustices and the tyranny of abusive police-action, protestors in Desoto County, Mississippi were…
According to the New York Times, major eyewitness, Willie Louis, of the Emmett Till trial died yesterday at 76. The truck was going “real fast,” Willie Reed testified, as it came down the main road near Drew, Miss., on an August morning. Emmett Till was murdered in 1955. A green and white 1955 Chevrolet — […]
Mississippi is a state long recognized for it’s systemic and systematic racism and bigotry, particularly towards Black Americans. The findings by the Mississippi Department of…
JACKSON, Miss. — A predominantly white Mississippi church has apologized for its refusal to allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary, though the…
Mississippi GOP state Rep. Bubba Carpenter voiced his satisfaction that a recent anti-abortion law will potentially shut down the last abortion clinic in the state,…
