Myrlie Evers-Williams: NAACP is sorry
theGRIO REPORT - It's been 50 years since Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, but the pain is still raw for his widow, Myrlie Evers Williams...
President Obama meets with Myrlie Evers at White House
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama met with Myrlie Evers-Williams during her visit in the Oval Office yesterday.
Ex-black nationalist wins Miss. mayor race
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi attorney and one-time civil rights activist who was involved in a black nationalist group decades ago has been elected mayor of Jackson, the state capital...
Mississippi mayoral candidate haunted by radical past
theGRIO REPORT - The 65-year-old councilman has repeatedly advocated for seeing that percentage of African-Americans reflected more in city government...
Slain LGBT mayoral candidate's family demands answers
theGRIO REPORT - Nearly three months after the battered body of Clarksdale, Miss. mayoral candidate Marco Watson McMillian was found dumped in a field, his parents have hired Parks and Crump...
Supreme Court won't get involved in Mississippi redistricting
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting...
Speaking up for slain LGBT mayoral candidate
OPINION - It’s been 82 days since the body of Marco McMillian, a black mayoral candidate, who was also gay, was found on the Mississippi River levee, unclothed...
Slain mayoral candidate's family demands answers
VIDEO - According to the medical examiner, McMillian died of asphyxiation. There is also evidence the openly gay mayoral candidate was burned and beaten...
A death row reprieve in Mississsippi
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders of two college students more than two decades ago after the Mississippi Supreme Court voted eight to one to grant him a stay of execution...
Mississippi Supreme Court blocks execution
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of the 1992 slayings of two college students.
