Mississippi
Mississippi Sends Its First Hate Criminal To Prison
“Do you want to go muddin’?” It’s nearly midnight in Brandon, Miss., home to what the FBI calls a gang of “racist thugs” as bad as any in Southern history. I’ve apparently just met some of them at an all-night car wash, the village square in a town where wrecking and wiping-down your pickup truck [...]
Judge throws out lawsuit seeking MLK documents
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. seeking documents and other material connected to the civil rights leader from a Mississippi TV anchor. The lawsuit was filed in September in U.S. District Court in Jackson against Howard Ballou, an anchor for Jackson-based WLBT-TV. [...]
White teen pleads guilty in Miss. hate crime
A white teenager pleaded guilty to murder and a hate crime Wednesday for running over a black man with his pickup truck in a killing a judge called a stain on Mississippi that will take years to fade. Deryl Dedmon, 19, apologized to the victim’s family before he received two life sentences for the June [...]
Evers alleges GOP presidential candidates snubbed black voters
Charles Evers, an African American on the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, feels the GOP is turning its back on a large segment of voters. The radio station owner is outraged over what he sees as blacks being snubbed by the presidential contenders. The political activist said African Americans, roughly 45% of the state’s population, were [...]
Blues legend Johnson could get highway honor
The Mississippi House has voted to name part of Interstate 55 for blues great Robert Johnson, whose most famous song is about a crossroads. House Bill 166 would designate a 13-mile stretch in Copiah County as the Robert L. Johnson Memorial Highway. Johnson was born in the county in 1911. Legend says Johnson gained extraordinary [...]
