The PBS Frontline’s traveling augmented-reality exhibit, “Un(re)solved”, rests in the special exhibit room of the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Aug. 27, 2021. The exhibit opened on Aug. 28, to align with the commemoration of the death of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The multi-media platform examines the […]
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‘Sins of our past’: Apologies for 1970 Jackson St. shootings
A Jackson State member of the Class of 1970 laughs after being handed a diploma during an official graduation ceremony, as one of 74 graduates honored by the historically Black university, Saturday, May 15, 2021, at the Jackson, Miss., historically Black university. The graduates were bestowed diplomas, 51 years after the school canceled its 1970 […]
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Analysis: Census will reshape political maps in Mississippi
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann speaks to elected officials at the Lauderdale County Courthouse in Meridian, Miss. on Friday, April 30, 2021. Hosemann was in town to talk about the 2021 legislative session and the American Rescue Plan Act. (Bianca Moorman/The Meridian Star via AP) By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — […]
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Home of Civil Rights Icon Medgar Evers Named as a National Monument
In this Aug. 9, 1955 file photo, Medgar Evers, state secretary for the NAACP poses for a photo in Jackson, Miss. The historic home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now a national monument, the U.S. interior secretary and members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation announced Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The designation for the […]
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Ole Miss to Recognize Slave Labor on Pre-Civil War Buildings
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi will post a sign acknowledging that slaves built some structures on the main campus founded before the Civil War. FILE- This March 12, 2017, file photo shows a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. The university announced […]
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Mississippi Lawmaker Apologizes for Calling for Lynching
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi lawmaker has apologized for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states. “The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific,” Republican state Rep. […]
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Madison County Mississippi Cops Sued for Outrageous Abuse of Black Citizens
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in one majority-White Mississippi county are unfairly targeting Black people for traffic stops and searches of homes and property without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, a civil rights group claims in a new federal lawsuit. Attorney Jonathan Youngwood, left, co-counsel with the ACLU of Mississippi, discusses their lawsuit on […]
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Judge Grants More Time to the Last Miss. Abortion Clinic
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The future of Mississippi’s only clinic where women can get an abortion remains unclear after a federal judge’s ruling in a closely watched court case. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III ruled Friday that a strict abortion law passed by the Republican-controlled legislature can take effect, but he gave the […]