Mississippi

  Dr. Jamal Bryant and Attorney Carlos Moore lead the “Take it Down” Confederate Flag rally this week in Jackson to challenge Gov. Phil Bryant’s ruling to keep the controversial flag flying. Mississippi is the only state that still flies the Confederate flag and Attorney Moore is suing the Governor Bryant over this matter. Both Dr. Bryant and Attorney Moore talk […]

A Mississippi man became well known in his hometown for his open display of love for his late wife, and has erected a loving memorial in her honor. Charles “LaLa” Evans and his wife Louise enjoyed nearly 59 years of marriage before her passing in 2011 but has turned their home into a virtual museum of […]

A Biloxi Waffle House employee is dead after telling a customer not to smoke at the restaurant.

They came for the pancakes, but patrons of an IHOP in Meridian, Miss. got a lot more than they expected when a huge sinkhole opened…

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — After an intense manhunt, authorities in Mississippi said a college instructor wanted in the deaths of a woman he lived with and a university professor he worked with died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound as police closed in on him. News of Shannon Lamb’s death late Monday night brought to […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, relatives and civil rights activists are holding church services and movie screenings to remember Emmett Till. They’re also trying to continue the legacy of his late mother, Mamie Till Mobley, who worked with young […]

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is donating $4.7 million to eight organizations in New Orleans and two coalitions in Mississippi devoted to uplifting young men and…

Charges have been dropped against three people who cheered when they were instructed not to at a recent high school graduation in Mississippi. Senatobia Municipal School District Superintendent Jay Foster told the audience at last month’s graduation at Senatobia High School to hold their applause until the end. But four people ignored the rule when their […]

Graduations are meant to be special moments between students and their families, but one family is now facing charges for cheering on their relatives during a…

Four people who cheered for family members at a Mississippi high school graduation ceremony are now facing charges for “disturbing the peace.” Fox 40 reports: Police at Northwest Mississippi Community College, where Senatobia High School’s graduation ceremony was held, said the superintendent asked the crowd not to scream and to hold their applause until the end. […]

.@SUBWAY you have employees advocating cop killing while in work uniform. pic.twitter.com/Y25mJr7JXq — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 10, 2015 A Subway restaurant worker is out…

Sarah Adelia Graves, 22 and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21 were sentenced to five and eight years, respectively, for the brutal murder of Black man, James…