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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…
December 17, 2010

'Pops' Staples blues marker goes up on Miss. trail

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Staples was born on a farm near Winona on Dec. 28, 1914. He began playing blues…
November 25, 2010

Years later, Miss. still lacks civil rights museum

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The absence of a state museum to acknowledge these events leads some to question whether Mississippi…
November 12, 2010

High School coach caught on tape whipping students

VIDEO - In the video released by attorney Lisa Ross, viewers can see and hear Murrah High School basketball coach…
November 2, 2010

11 races where black voters can make a big difference

OPINON - People who believe their vote does not make a difference may be encouraged to know that in many…
October 19, 2010

Blacks’ higher education options limited in the South

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - "The 400,000 or 500,000 African-Americans in the Delta need a place to go to school where…
October 15, 2010

Witness recounts bisexual Miss. teen gang beating

VIDEO - A Memphis, Tennessee teen says he was teased and beaten by a gang because he is bisexual...
October 14, 2010

Till’s murder still educates students about Civil Rights

VIDEO - Simeon Wright had no idea he would witness the kidnapping of the man whose murder launched the civil…
October 14, 2010

Black voters may sway 20 House races in Nov. vote

BOWIE, Md. (AP) - Polls indicate many minority voters are discouraged and won't turn out Nov. 2 as they did…
September 15, 2010

NAACP backs pardon for 2 serving life for $11 robbery

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The NAACP is asking Mississippi's governor to pardon two black women who have been serving life…
September 10, 2010

Struggle for school equality continues in Nettleton, Miss.

OPINION - Much more than empty promises of equal opportunity are needed to ensure an end to the persistent human…
September 8, 2010

Why conservatives want to rewrite civil rights history

OPINION - They have an image problem regarding race that will preclude them picking up moderate white voters who fled…
August 28, 2010

Why the Miss. school election segregation scandal matters

OPINION - This blatant attempt to preserve segregation was an institutionalized assertion of a mythical white superiority...
August 27, 2010

Katrina survivor Charles Evans: 'Storm seemed like a scary movie'

VIDEO - At 9, Charles Evans, along with thousands of others trapped at the New Orleans convention center by floodwaters,…
August 27, 2010

Miss. school reverses race-based rules for student elections

VIDEO - According to a memo sent home with students last week, African-American students could not run for class president…
July 16, 2010

Miss. man charged with post-Katrina hate crime

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Roland Bourgeois Jr., a 47-year-old white man, is charged in a five-count indictment with firing a…
June 7, 2010

Blacks blocked from serving on Southern juries, study says

OPINION - Knowing that this type of discrimination continues is the first step toward holding district attorney's offices accountable for…