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Brittany Noble-Jones thegrio.com
January 12, 2019
A black television news anchor says she was wrongly terminated by bosses at WJTV who said natural hairstyle, was “unprofessional."
Lanekia Michelle Brown
December 26, 2018
Lanekia Michelle Brown had been arrested on a drug charge, but her family wants to know why the 37-year-old mother,…
Gavel
November 30, 2018
Despite Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s controversial win amid her public hanging scandal, Black women in the state still made gains…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 28, 2018
Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose campaign for U.S. Senate was dogged by her racially charged comments at a campaign rally narrowly took…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 26, 2018
"We're hanging nooses to remind people that times haven't changed," read one of the signs, which were written in different…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 21, 2018
Already in enough hot water for her "public hanging" comments about her U.S. Senate runoff race opponent Mike Espy, Cindy…
Cindy Hyde-Smith thegrio.com
November 12, 2018
Republican Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith found is in a video where she's admitting she'd be "on the front row" if invited…
confederate flag thegrio.com
November 9, 2018
A confederate flag is one thing, but the way this man used it was really doing too much, so it's…
Mississippi high school band thegrio.com
October 9, 2018
A school in Mississippi is under fire after videos of the school’s band members holding fake guns during a halftime
Jesse Williams thegrio.com
September 24, 2018
[griojw id=”XGKrueDp” playerid=”x9J2bwvH”]   Jesse Williams, the human rights activist and longtime star of Grey’s Anatomy, is set to make
Chris McDaniel TheGrio
September 16, 2018
Chris McDaniel made the comments Friday during an edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show taped live at Ole Miss –…
Emmett Till TheGrio
August 24, 2018
The murder of Emmett Till is just as relevant today as it was in 1955 when his death sparked an…
Man loses job after video goes viral of him calling pregnant black woman the n-word thegrio.com
August 13, 2018
On Saturday a Flowood, Mississippi man went on a racist rant against a donut shop employee that was caught on
James Barnett
May 23, 2018
Two Mississippi police officers who were fired after allegations of assaulting James Barnett, an African-American man, are facing possible additional…
Oscar O'Neal
May 1, 2018
A Mississippi teacher is believed to have taken off with one of her students Oscar O'Neal II, authorities say. Now…
prison thegrio.com
April 13, 2018
The state of Mississippi has "abandoned its responsibility to provide basic needs" to inmates at a privately run prison that…
Confederate Flag
April 4, 2018
The Mississippi state flag is one of a handful of state emblems that still features the Confederate flag. The flag…
April 2, 2018
Charles Barkley, the basketball Hall of Famer best known for having a big game and bigger opinions, has decided to…
abortion protests in mississippi thegrio.com
March 20, 2018
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant passed into law an abortion ban – at 15 weeks – which is now the strictest
pregnancy test thegrio.com
March 13, 2018
Last week, the Mississippi legislature celebrated International Women’s Day — not by expanding health care access or guaranteeing fair pay…