Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is leading calls for action after a Mississippi police officer killed a 17-year-old Black boy by driving over him in a police cruiser during an early morning chase last week. Kadarius Smith died last Thursday after an unidentified officer with the Leland […]
On Tuesday, Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton got their sentences for their treatment of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. Tomorrow, Brett McAlpin and Joshua Hartfield face theirs. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sentencing continues Wednesday for white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who pleaded guilty […]
A federal agency released a preliminary report on its investigation into two back-to-back home explosions that happened within days of each other in Jackson, Mississippi, resulting in the death of an 82-year-old woman. According to the Mississippi Free Press, the first home on Bristol Boulevard exploded […]
A Black passenger who was shot in the head by members of the Capitol Police in Jackson, Mississippi, during a traffic stop has filed a federal lawsuit. The excessive force complaint was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Mississippi on Dec. 20. According to […]
Dexter Wade’s family’s attorneys have released the initial results of an independent autopsy on his body and revealed the extent of his injuries and decay of his body. Wade was killed in March on a Mississippi interstate after being run over by an off-duty corporal in a Jackson police […]
Mississippi authorities reportedly exhumed the body of Dexter Wade without allowing his family to be present months after he was killed by an off-duty cop and secretly buried, leaving his mother to search for him for months. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told WJTV 12 News that […]
The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi told the public what he thought about the killing of a Black man who was run over by an off-duty cop in a police car and whose death was kept a secret from his family. Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba opted to call […]
The body of a woman who went missing more than two weeks ago was recovered from the Mississippi River. Authorities were able to locate 21-year-old Tamia Taylor on Saturday, Sept. 23, Fox 13 Memphis reported. She mysteriously disappeared after celebrating her birthday on a Memphis […]
*The horrific imagery is long seared into the minds of Black Americans and imprinted in the history of the American South: A Black man hunted down, beaten bloody, run over, hung from a pecan tree, dragged behind a pickup truck, or shot in broad daylight […]
A Gulfport, Mississippi, man has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, three years post-release supervision, and ordered to pay $7,810 in fines after burning a cross in his front yard in an attempt to intimidate a Black family. According to The Associated Press, Axel Cox violated the Fair Housing Act […]
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