Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’
Justice Department says Mississippi Senate paid a Black attorney less than her white colleagues for years
A current lawsuit alleges that a staff attorney of the state was paid less than her white peers and didn’t receive increases like them.
Read MoreA Black Teen Is Helping Save Mississippi’s Oysters
Demi Johnson has raised over 1,000 oysters, and her conservation efforts have been recognized by the National Geographic Society.
Read More‘Did You Tase Him in the Face!?’ Inside ‘Goon Squad’ Deputies’ Group Chat
A group of (mostly) former Mississippi cops’ vulgar groupchat recently came to light, where they joked about sexual assault, torture, and kidnapping. The men came to national attention last year after they tortured and nearly murdered two innocent Black men.
Read MoreAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: Final Screening
Raven Jackson’s feature debut is a richly-layered ode to generations of people and places, tracing decades of a woman’s life in Mississippi. With the luxuriating pace of a summer evening, the film allows audiences to linger on ideas of grief, longing, and memory all while gazing on luminously lensed visuals. Jackson is one to watch.
Read MoreAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Raven Jackson’s feature debut is a richly-layered ode to generations of people and places, tracing decades of a woman’s life in Mississippi. With the luxuriating pace of a summer evening, the film allows audiences to linger on ideas of grief, longing, and memory all while gazing on luminously lensed visuals. Jackson is one to watch.
Read MoreAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: 2nd Screening
Raven Jackson’s feature debut is a richly-layered ode to generations of people and places, tracing decades of a woman’s life in Mississippi. With the luxuriating pace of a summer evening, the film allows audiences to linger on ideas of grief, longing, and memory all while gazing on luminously lensed visuals. Jackson is one to watch.
Read MoreA Mississippi Civil War memorial now includes more Black military history
Thanks to the efforts of a historian at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Black Union soldiers have not been given proper honors.
Read MoreDexter Wade, buried without his family’s knowledge, had ID on him with his home address, lawyer says
Dexter Wade, the man who was killed by a Jackson police cruiser and buried in a pauper’s grave, did in fact have identification on his person, according to the family’s lawyer.
Read MoreMississippi Senate OKs bill affecting majority-Black city
Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill appointing white judges inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson.
Read MoreLawsuit seeks white woman’s arrest in Emmett Till’s 1955 kidnapping, lynching
Family members of Emmett Till are demanding the arrest of Caroline Bryant, the woman whose accusation led to the boy’s lynching.
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