2015/06/08 – The Mississippi NAACP is outraged at the treatment of the family members of Senatobia High School graduating senior Lanarcia Walker. Senatobia Municipal School District Superintendent Jay Foster filed ‘disturbing the peace’ charges against Walker’s family members after they yelled …..
2015/06/04 – JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -It’s the story all over social media – a Mississippi man, along with three others, were arrested for cheering at a high school graduation. The story and now the video has had many asking …..
2015/06/03 – Being black in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era was nothing to live for. Routine lynchings, beatings, unemployment and arbitrary arrest were all a rotten part of a hard life. As an African-American living in the South, voting was …..
2015/05/28 – Merit Health Central Hospital must prove it has made changes in handling emergency care patients, or it could lose Medicare funding, officials have warned the Jackson hospital. “We have determined that the deficiencies are so serious that they constitute …..
2015/05/27 – A popularly cited statistic involves private corrections companies pouring over third-grade reading scores in a given jurisdiction to project how many prison beds will be needed in a decade, when those illiterate third graders go off track and run …..
