A medical worker got what he deserved for promoting bigotry on one of the biggest days for American democracy. He was let go from his position for his infraction.
Longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis is a triple OG when it comes to both politics and his earlier involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis has opted to skip a weekend opening ceremony of a Mississippi civil rights museum because President Donald Trump would be in attendance, and the White House’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee […]
Jasmine Shepard, a Mississippi high school student, was named her school’s first Black valedictorian in 2016. While the honor should have been a moment of high praise, a lawsuit filed by her mother alleges that the school forced her to share the award with a white student with a lesser GPA.
Markers placed to honor the life of slain Black teen Emmett Till have been vandalized twice in less than year’s time. The most recent incident found that panels explaining the details of the 14-year-old’s short life and tragic end were defaced, adding to a series of such acts over the years.
Willie Cory Godbolt, a Bogue Chitto, Mississippi man, has been arrested in connection with a wild shooting spree that took place Saturday in the small town. Among the dead was a deputy sheriff that Godbolt said to a reporter was just in the way as he hoped to be killed by police gunfire.
Emmett Till‘s brutal 1955 lynching at the hands of white men angered by his alleged flirting with a married white woman Mississippi has remained one of the most chilling instances of racism in modern times. However, the woman at the center of the controversy, Carolyn Bryant Donham, shared in 2007 that her claims and testimony in court […]
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill into law Tuesday that will have a major impact on the LGBT community in the state. House Bill 1523 would allow businesses to ban service to same-sex couples from entering their establishments and the language in the law spreads an even further divisive tone.
The owner of a Mississippi RV trailer park evicted an interracial couple from its grounds, allegedly telling the wife that he doesn’t allow “Black and white shacking” at his business. Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is of Hispanic and Native American descent, and her Black husband, Stanley Hoskins, were given the boot because park owner Gene Baker said […]
The Confederacy lost the Civil War, but they just can’t seem to let that hurt go. Case in point, it’s 2016 in post-racial America (#sarcasm), yet Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has declared April to be ‘Confederate Heritage Month.’
David Banner has used his visible platform to advance his strong views and compassion towards social justice issues of varying sort. This coming Friday, the Grammy Award-winning rapper, producer, and activist is hosting his 9th annual Heal The Hood At Christmas in his native Mississippi.
Big K.R.I.T. is one of two Hip-Hop artists who have built a successful legacy by championing the Magnolia State every chance they got, but even he knows where to draw the line when it comes to hometown pride.
An active shooter is on the loose on the campus grounds of Delta State University in Mississippi. Thus far, a professor has been declared dead but other details are still pouring in according to law officials on the ground.
