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Racist Father/Son Duo Get Four Years In Prison For Hate Crimes Against Black Teens

Two white men from Mississippi were recently sentenced to four years in prison on hate crime charges of simple assault…
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Some Mississippi Residents Have To Actually Be Told To Not Treat COVID-19 With Cow & Horse Meds

The Mississippi State Department of Health sent out an alert last Friday to urge people against ingesting the drug ivermectin…
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Mississippi Tops Lynchings Recorded By Any State, 8 Suspected Since 2000

A private investigation by lawyer and civil rights activist Jill Collen Jefferson revealed that at least eight Black people have…
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Mississippi Getting First Black Female Chief Federal Judge

A Black woman, for the first time, will become a chief federal judge in Mississippi.
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Mississippi Teen Killed By Gun Violence Just Hours After Graduating

18-year-old Kennedy Hobbs was shot three times at a Texaco gas station in Jackson after graduating from Murrah High School…
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Anger Ensues After White Mississippi Cops Post Pic With Dogs And Black Suspect

Mississippi police have sparked outrage after four of their white police officers and dogs posed for a picture with a…
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Mississippi Surrenders Confederate Symbol From State Flag

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more…
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Mississippi State Coach Mike Leach Apologizes For Racist Tweet

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach has apologized on social media for posting a tweet that…
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Possible Twister: Damage Reports At Mississippi-Alabama Line

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Teresa Hazelwood stopped by a Dollar General store in northern Mississippi to get some chips, and…
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Mississippi Man Gets Death Sentence For Multiple Killings

MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Thursday, hours after he…
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152 Parchman Inmates File Second Lawsuit Against Mississippi Officials Over ‘Barbaric’ Prison Conditions [Video]

JAY-Z and Yo Gotti have teamed with lawyers representing the 152 inmates inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to file a second lawsuit in federal court…
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Congress Makes Lynching A Federal Crime, 65 Years After Till

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as…
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