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Mississippi
1-year-old baby miraculously survives 2 days of stormy weather alone on highway after brother loses life
A one-year-old boy survived two days of stormy weather alone on a Louisiana highway until a trucker found him crawling along the road. His four-year-old brother was discovered dead nearby a day earlier. The baby, despite being covered in bug bites, was unharmed. Authorities arrested the boys’ mother, Aaliyah Jack, 25, on Tuesday in Mississippi,…
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First Black woman in Mississippi Legislature makes history again with portrait in state Capitol
The first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature, former Representative Alyce Clarke,...
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She doesn’t use drugs – family of woman who walked into Walmart with baby wearing only diapers cry out
The family of a Mississippi woman, Kambria Gabrielle Darby, who was arrested for child abuse...
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Jury says officer who shot 11-year-old boy in the chest is not guilty of criminal conduct
A Mississippi grand jury has decided not to indict Indianola Police Sgt. Greg Capers, who shot...
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10-year-old arrested for urinating in public placed on probation and asked to write about Kobe Bryant
A 10-year-old black boy from Mississippi, Quantavious Eason, has been placed on probation and instructed to write a two-page book report on late NBA legend Kobe Bryant after being arrested for urinating...
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Jackson police allegedly buried another Black man without his family’s knowledge
Marrio Terrell Moore is the latest victim, coming less than a month after Dexter Wade’s story of being buried without his family’s knowledge after being hit by Jackson, Mississippi, police....
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‘I was scared’: 6-year-old reveals trying moment she saved mom’s life after suffering stroke while driving
A 6-year-old girl from Mississippi, Bryanna Cook, has been honored for her bravery in helping emergency responders locate her family’s car after her mother suffered a stroke while driving in a rural...
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Police reportedly killed man, buried him without telling his family who searched for him for months
A Mississippi mother has claimed that her son, Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old Black man, was struck by a white police officer’s car while crossing a highway. According to Bettersten Wade, the authorities...
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10-year-old Mississippi boy placed in cell for peeing behind his mother’s car
A 10-year-old boy from Mississippi was arrested for public urination after he was caught peeing behind his mother’s car. His mother, Latonya Eason, was at a lawyer’s office when a police officer...
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The March Against Fear: how a historic civil rights protest began with one and ended with 15,000 protestors
The 1966 “March Against Fear” was meant to be a 270-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi to protest against the deliberate attempt to disenfranchise Black voters. James...
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Freedom Summer: When civil rights activists shed blood to protest voter discrimination
The civil rights movement by the mid-1960s had made significant strides in attaining racial equality and social justice but there was still voter discrimination at the polls, particularly in the South....
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Gilbert Mason, the physician who fought and went to jail to ensure beaches in Mississippi were desegregated
Until the 1950s, it was an unwritten rule for African Americans to swim at any of the local beaches in Mississippi. The police and city authorities were bent on enforcing what was non-existent in the law...
