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September 12, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Eight years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Mississippi still hasn't spent almost $1 billion…
August 7, 2013
VIDEO - Meet Samuel Green, an eight-year-old boy from Jackson, Miss. who made his way to the Today Show for…
August 6, 2013
MSNBC - Travis Reginal and Justin Porter of Jackson, Mississippi, have accomplished something extraordinary by any measure: they were accepted…
August 1, 2013
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A jury trial over a lawsuit contesting the results of a Mississippi mayoral election has ended…
June 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It's been 50 years since Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi,…
June 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama met with Myrlie Evers-Williams during her visit in the Oval Office yesterday.
June 5, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi attorney and one-time civil rights activist who was involved in a black nationalist group…
June 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The 65-year-old councilman has repeatedly advocated for seeing that percentage of African-Americans reflected more in city government...
May 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Nearly three months after the battered body of Clarksdale, Miss. mayoral candidate Marco Watson McMillian was found…
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the…
May 20, 2013
OPINION - It’s been 82 days since the body of Marco McMillian, a black mayoral candidate, who was also gay,…
May 10, 2013
VIDEO - According to the medical examiner, McMillian died of asphyxiation. There is also evidence the openly gay mayoral candidate…
May 8, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders…
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of…
May 7, 2013
OPINION - Unless the governor of Mississippi intervenes, the Magnolia State will execute Willie Jerome Manning on May 7...
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Attorneys for a death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1992 are hoping that…
May 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi inmate has been denied requests for DNA testing and he is set to be executed…
April 30, 2013
TUPELO, Mississippi (AP) - Ricin has been found in a business once used by the man charged in the case…
April 29, 2013
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man charged with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others…
April 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Linda Fondren, a candidate running for mayor in Vicksburg, Miss., recently opened up about her employment record…