Mississippi

The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to…

Authorities have yet to confirm if a missing man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last week was killed or committed suicide, but the…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a…

The body of an African-American man who has been missing since early March was found hanging from a tree in the woods of Mississippi, a…

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Police say a man shot a couple and their three children, killing the father and a 9-year-old daughter and critically wounding the mother and two other children. Neighbors say the mother and two children, covered in blood, crossed a usually busy two-lane highway to seek help after the early Friday shooting. […]

As many throughout the nation continue rise up to let their voices be heard against social injustices and the tyranny of abusive police-action, protestors in Desoto County, Mississippi were…

Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones (D), chairman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, received backlash from caucus members after defending controversial comments made by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.…

Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones (D), chairman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, received backlash from caucus members after defending controversial comments made by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.…

Unita Blackwell, a former sharecropper who later became a civil rights activist in the south, is the first Black woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi. Despite a an eight-grade education and while facing extreme racism, Ms. Blackwell fought valiantly for the voting and civil rights of Black people in her state. […]

Courtney Cooke, 27, beloved daughter and mother of a 1-year-old child, was found shot to death on the Natchez Trace Parkway and now her family–and authorities–are…

Rev. George Lee, a civil rights leader and activist, is considered by some historians to be the first martyr of the civil rights movement. In the town of Belzoni, Miss., Rev. Lee led a series of voter registration drives which led to his assassination in 1955. The town was given the gruesome nickname “Bloody Belzoni” […]