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June 30, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan…
May 6, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A rapper draped herself in a Confederate battle flag and hung a noose around her neck…
April 4, 2016
A Mississippi RV park owner acknowledge that he asked an interracial couple to leave because of the color of their…
March 29, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A young Mississippi woman plans to plead guilty to a terrorism charge Tuesday, months after authorities
March 21, 2016
Last month Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant announced a controversial decision to declare April to be Confederate Heritage Month.  He did this
March 9, 2016
LANSING, Michigan (AP) — Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his long-shot White House bid with a crucial win in
March 1, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four white men convicted in the 2011 beating and rundown death of a black autoworker in…
January 9, 2016
A Mississippi councilman is in hot water after he called for people to throw things at police cars involved in…
December 14, 2015
A moment of self confidence and black pride, landed one little girl in the principal's office.
December 13, 2015
Marvin Banks, the man who was suspected in the shooting of two Mississippi cops, was alone in his isolation cell…
November 27, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say a Mississippi man is accused in Louisiana of killing his father and stabbing his…
November 5, 2015
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State University's president says while he supports removing the Confederate battle emblem from the…
November 3, 2015
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A police chief says a 61-year-old Mississippi man has been accused of bombing a Wal-Mart because…
October 27, 2015
OXFORD, Mississippi (AP) — The University of Mississippi quietly took down the state flag on Monday, heeding the calls of…
October 21, 2015
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Student senators at the University of Mississippi voted Tuesday night to ask the school administration to…
October 12, 2015
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Civil-rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams, Mississippi-born rapper David Banner and a prominent South Carolina lawmaker are calling…
October 12, 2015
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of Jamal Mallard, who died early Saturday after being held overnight…
August 29, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With prayers, church bells and brass bands, residents across Mississippi and Louisiana will pay homage Saturday…
August 28, 2015
Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kanye West stunned TV producers and people across the country when he
August 15, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A young Mississippi couple has been arrested after it was discovered that they were planning to fly…