Mississippi

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January 15, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A 15-year-old blues star from Mississippi has suddenly found himself courted by national TV and radio. Even…
December 15, 2014
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two women have pleaded guilty in connection with a series of attacks on African-Americans in Mississippi
September 3, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi woman was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted of administering fatal silicone…
August 20, 2014
VIDEO - The family of a Mississippi man beaten and shot by his stepson say the assault should be considered…
July 11, 2014
VIDEO - Mother and daughter she adopted after infant was abandoned on doorstep look back at 18 years together...
July 1, 2014
OPINION - On Election Day voter turnout rose 17% across the state but it wasn't just white voters who went…
April 10, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Chris McDaniel, a Tea Party candidate for U.S. Senate out of Mississippi, is under fire for recently…
March 13, 2014
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag…
March 13, 2014
VIDEO - Police investigated a report that missing 2-year-old Myra Lewis was seen Tuesday at Discovery Inn, which is a…
February 28, 2014
LEXINGTON, Mississippi (AP) — Workers at a U.S. funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they…
January 4, 2014
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A team of plaintiffs' attorneys has spent roughly $16 million to sue the Army Corps of…
December 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The first state to allow conjugal visits to its prison population more than 100 years ago will…
December 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It is often said that the younger generation are disinterested and disengaged from politics. But one young…
November 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - There is no question the poverty level in Mississippi is the highest in the nation. And on…
November 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi-based minister, inspired by the Obama White House's anti-obesity efforts, is trying to purge his flock…
November 5, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The bodies of three people believed to be members of a family that went missing have…
October 23, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…
October 17, 2013
MSNBC - In June, the Supreme Court badly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act which had been signed into law…
October 3, 2013
NBC News - A program in Starkville, Mississippi is helping people in poverty identify strategies and come up with a…
October 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Philadelphia, Miss., man has been sentenced to 90 years in jail for driving while drunk and…