Election officials say a Mississippi man collapsed and died on the way to vote with his wife who went back later to cast her ballot. Precinct bailiff Keith Varnado tells The Enterprise-Journal that Emmitt Booth was coming in the door at the South McComb Baptist Church in southern Mississippi to vote Tuesday morning when he collapsed. He […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Voting was swift and easy in many precincts Tuesday as Mississippi residents were deciding the last U.S. Senate race of the midterms, choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Donald Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary when Bill Clinton was in the White House. History […]
We’re coming off of the Thanksgiving holiday and one person who didn’t spend it eating turkey and watching football, is Mike Espy. Tomorrow Nov. 27 is the Mississippi Runoff Election. Espy and his crew have been campaigning and canvasing neighborhoods for a week straight and believe they can win. Both Espy and Cindy Hyde -Smith […]
Mike Espy is in a runoff and Roland Martin says voters can really change Mississippi and the country! Roland Martin talks to Reverend William J. Barber, who says red states are “really voter suppression states,” and states where people don’t get out and vote. He urges people to get out and vote for who cares […]
The runoff in Mississippi between Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith is Tuesday Nov. 27 and Roland Martin emphasizes the importance. Derrick Johnson, President/CEO of the NAACP, calls the runoff a “turnout game” meaning, “whoever gets their people back to the polls wins.” There are typically 40% less voters who come out during runoff elections, but if […]
Lots of attention has been on the recounts in Florida and Georgia, but we also need to be paying attention to Mississippi as well. Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith are in a runoff for senate. Roland Martin talks to Congressman Bennie Thompson and Tristan Wilkerson with Be Woke campaign and both say this runoff is […]
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A man has been arrested after he drove his pickup truck into a courthouse in Mississippi. News outlets reported that the Gulfport Police Department said in a news release that 28-year-old Keith Cavalier told officers he intentionally crashed into the Harrison County Courthouse early Saturday because it was the best way […]
Wrong outfit for election day.
R. Kelly‘s lawyer has had enough and is reportedly begging a judge to allow him to drop his client in the legal battle accusing the singer of breaking up a marriage. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, M. Craig Robertson argues he should be “allowed to discontinue any further legal services and/or representation […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man in a wheel chair has been charged with fatally shooting his mother, grandmother and sister Sunday morning at a home in Mississippi’s capital city, authorities said. The Jackson Police Department said in a statement that Maurice Forte, 22, is facing three counts of murder in connection with the deaths. […]
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and shot him in the face. “His eyes … were hanging out,” King recalled. “His head was full of pellets.” William Roy Prather died the next […]
Someone shot at the sign that marks where Emmett Till's body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.
