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November 24, 2016
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Back in the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that Sunday morning is the…
November 4, 2016
Thousands of donors have helped to raise almost $170,000 in just a couple days to help fix the damage and…
November 2, 2016
Late Tuesday, a black Mississippi church was burned and then vandalized with the words "Vote Trump."
October 5, 2016
Three-year-old Cheyenne Hyer, whose mother, Cassie Barker, was placed on administrative, died after being left alone for hours in a…
September 20, 2016
Melanie Dotson, a 22-year-old Mississippi news reporter, of "natural causes" Friday, but no information has been released concerning her cause…
September 9, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to have the Confederate battle emblem on…
August 12, 2016
On Thursday, 20-year-old Jaelyn Young was sentenced to 12 years in prison on terrorism charges after she tried to join ISIS
July 6, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has been indicted for manslaughter several weeks after his 8-month-old daughter died in…
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…