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February 18, 2011

Family maid sues author of best-seller ‘The Help’

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Ablene Cooper, who said she worked for Stockett's brother, is claiming Stockett used her name and…
February 16, 2011

Good grief, Haley Barbour! KKK license plate controversy continues

Haley Barbour just demonstrated that he doesn't know how to address racially sensitive subjects in a way that will resonate…
February 16, 2011

Barbour won’t denounce Confederate license plate

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Asked about the NAACP's stance Tuesday, Barbour replied: "I don't go around denouncing people. That's not…
February 10, 2011

License plate proposed to honor KKK leader

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate…
February 9, 2011

Mississippi school bus accident takes deadly turn

VIDEO - Three adults were killed and at least a dozen students were injured when a tractor-trailer collided head-on with…
February 9, 2011

‘Candy Licker’ singer Marvin Sease dead at 64

VICKSBURG, Mississippi (AP) - Brett Bonner, editor of Living Blues Magazine, says Sease started in gospel music in South Carolina…
February 1, 2011

TheGrio’s 100: Linda Fondren, moving Mississippi to get healthy

TheGrio's 100 - After obesity factored in her sister's death, Linda Fondren made it her mission to get Mississippi, the…
January 29, 2011

Barbour juggles White House hopes, state’s past

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Now if the 63-year-old could just shake his penchant for airbrushing his state's segregationist past, a…
January 26, 2011

Woman stolen as a child reunited with true family

VIDEO - Shearea Jefferson, Anna's sister, heard from her mother that Anna was taken away by an aunt and her…
January 20, 2011

Haley Barbour: ‘Not much’ memory of civil rights era

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Barbour says he has little personal recollection of Freedom Summer activities in his state in 1964,…
January 20, 2011

Black and brown unite to fight new Miss. immigration bill

theGRIO REPORT - In a state where Latinos have no representation in the state legislature, African-Americans -- have extended their…
January 13, 2011

Barbour: Time to build civil rights museum in Miss.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Republican, who is considering a 2012 run in what could be a crowded GOP field,…
January 7, 2011

Kidney-sharing Scott sisters finally freed from prison

PEARL, Mississippi (AP) - Jamie and Gladys Scott waved to reporters and yelled "we're free" and "God bless y'all" as…
January 6, 2011

Sisters to be freed on pledge of kidney donation

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Jamie and Gladys Scott will be released Friday from the state prison in Rankin County, just…
January 2, 2011

Jailed Miss. sisters freed but must trade kidney

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The unusual agreement has alarmed some experts, who have raised legal and ethical questions...
December 30, 2010

Why Gov. Barbour had to free Scott sisters

OPINION - After taking a major media pummeling for his comments and under increasing pressure to do something about the…
December 29, 2010

Gov. Barbour suspends life sentence for Scott sisters

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has suspended the life sentences of two sisters convicted in 1994 for…
December 21, 2010

Barbour backs off widely criticized civil rights claims

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour spoke out a day after several liberal activists criticized his published comments about school…
December 21, 2010

Haley Barbour needs a civil rights history lesson

OPINION - Haley Barbour's failed attempt to re-write history stems from bigoted white supremacist ideology and must be rejected as…
December 20, 2010

Miss. gov praises civil rights era white supremacists

TALKING POINTS MEMO - Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential candidate, has an interesting perspective on the tumults of…