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Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NAACP President Derrick Johnson’s Statement on Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

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NAACP President Derrick Johnson released the following statement on the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis: Somehow, in the year 2022, eq...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Mississippi governor signs bill to retire state's Confederate-themed flag

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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Tuesday evening to retire the last state flag in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle ...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Jay-Z, Yo Gotti threaten to sue Mississippi over inhumane prisons

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Rap mogul Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti wrote a letter to two top Mississippi officials Thursday, protesting the conditions of Missis...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Black voters file federal lawsuit against Mississippi prosecutor

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Four black voters and a branch of the NAACP are suing a Mississippi prosecutor, asking a federal judge to order him to stop excluding Af...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Democrat Mike Espy files to run for Senate in 2020

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Democrat Mike Espy appears to be gunning for a rematch in his bid for Senate in Mississippi. The former agriculture secretary and cong...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Bennie Thompson and John Lewis Will Not Attend Mississippi Museums' Opening

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U.S. Representatives Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., and John Lewis, D-Ga., will not attend the grand opening of the Museum of Mississippi ...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Black judge removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem from courtroom

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Carlos Moore made history this week when he took to the bench as the first African-American municipal judge in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Black church set on fire & vandalized with "Vote Trump" graffiti

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Hopewell Baptist Church, a black church in Greenville Mississippi was set on fire and vandalized with graffiti that read "Vote ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

NAACP seeks federal probe after noose put on black student

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The president of the Mississippi NAACP is demanding a federal hate crime investigation after the parents of a black high school student ...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Notable Mississippians join chorus to change state flag

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In a letter appearing in a full-page ad in today's Clarion-Ledger, author John Grisham, actor Morgan Freeman, legendary quarterbac...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Mississippi lawmaker says that blacks get welfare crazy checks

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Republican Gene Alday, a Mississippi lawmaker made some racist comments to a reporter while discussing education funding in the state....