The white Mississippi teens caught on surveillance video killing a Black man may be responsible for other attacks on homeless Black men in the area, the head of the state’s NAACP told ABCNews.com. James Craig Anderson, 49, was beaten and mowed over by a group of white teen’s pickup-truck. Surveillance video aided in the prosecution […]
RANKIN COUNTY, MS — A young man is alleged to have killed his friend after an argument about a girl and a Twitter post. Dorian Cyrus allegedly killed his friend  Jeffery Taylor Jenkins after an argument on social media network, Twitter. The Grio reports: The two were suspected to be having an argument about a […]
Video has been released of the killing of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was killed by a group of white men. One of the teens involved said “let’s go f**k with some n****,” before the incident began, according to police. The group then proceeded to beat Anderson and run him over […]
MONTICELLO, MISS. — A Mississippi man jailed for shooting a cop he believed was a home invader was released after spending the last 10 years in prison. Cory Maye, 30, celebrated his release with friends, family and the lawyers who defended him during his case. Maye, who was arrested in 2001 for the shooting, plead […]
MISSISSIPPI–Authorities are reviewing the case of a black man found hanging dead from a tree after relatives claimed the state’s deputy medical examiner can’t be trusted because he falsified information about a woman’s death while working in Africa in the 1980s. The Grio Reports: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said it began its investigation […]
MISSISSIPPI-According to Public Policy a recent poll determined that 46 percent of Republican voters in Mississippi want to have interracial marriage banned. We asked voters on this poll whether they think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal- 46% of Mississippi Republicans said it should be illegal to just 40% who think it should be […]
Mississippi-Â Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour drew mixed reactions from analysts on Wednesday for his decision to push for a civil rights museum for his state ahead of a possible presidential bid.
If you’re black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can’t run for president – only whites need apply.
