PELAHATCHIE, Miss. (AP) — On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community’s white constable. See also: Lee Evans Not Guilty: New Jersey Man Acquitted […]
In a statement released last week, the Department of Justice has declined to reopen the 46-year-old case on the assassination of Civil Rights leader Malcolm X. The department said the statute of limitations has expired on any federal laws that might apply to the case. Despite the DOJ’s dissent, Civil Rights activists are ardently pushing […]
Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Thomas Perez, the new Assistant Attorney General in the US department of Justice heads the Department’s Civil Rights Division. Perez visited Indy Friday to highlight Attorney General Eric Holder’s and President Barack Obama’s committment to civil rights and fighting hate crimes. Perez was celebrating prison terms given to three men who burneda […]
