mississippi
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Miss. School District Axes To Kill a Mockingbird Because It Made Some People ‘Uncomfortable’
As further evidence that the United States is descending into an authoritarian state, a school district in Mississippi has removed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from a junior high school reading list. Biloxi, Miss., administrators pulled the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum this week after getting complaints from parents. The decision made was an…
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Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child
Local parents have filed a lawsuit against a central-Mississippi school district after they say a white substitute teacher made a horrific, threatening racist comment about their black son being hanged. According to the Associated Press, Tony and Kayla Lindsey say that their son, who has since graduated, got into an argument in April and threatened…
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Miss. Inmates Break Out of Jail, Burglarize a Dollar General, Then Sneak Back Into Jail in Bizarre Crime
Sometimes the news brings you truth that is stranger than fiction. And I am trying to figure out how (and why) a group of Holmes County, Miss., inmates managed to break out of a local jail and then steal from a store, only to escort themselves back behind bars. According to Mississippi News Now, the…
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Miss. Elementary School Teacher Fired Over Facebook Post Telling African Americans to ‘Move Back to Africa’
Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Looks like the South Panola School District in Mississippi isn’t buying the ol’ “Oh my goodness, I’ve been hacked!” excuse after an elementary school teacher was caught making racist comments on Facebook. Cammie Rone, who taught at Batesville Intermediate School, has been officially fired after commenting that…
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Watch: Mudbound’s 1st Trailer Reveals a Soul-Stirring Story of Survival, Friendship and America’s Inequality
The trailer for Netflix’s Mudbound is here, and it’s more riveting and soul-stirring than all the critics claim. The Dee Rees-directed film follows the McAllan family, newly transplanted from Memphis, Tenn., and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming (aka real-life work). Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry McAllan (Jason Clarke), his wife, Laura (Carey…
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‘You Need a Bullet in the Head’: Police Believe Black Miss. Judge Is Being Threatened for Removing Controversial State Flag From Courtroom
A Clarksdale, Miss., judge has been the target of a slew of violent, threatening social media posts, and police believe it is possible that the threats stem from Judge Carlos Moore’s decision to remove the controversial Mississippi state flag from his courtroom earlier this summer. “Your [sic] not untouchable you can’t hide behind the court…
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Miss. Police Executing Arrest Warrant Go to Wrong House, Fatally Shoot Man: Report
Police in Southaven, Miss., apparently went to the wrong address to execute an arrest warrant and ended up fatally shooting a man in his own home Sunday, an arrest warrant issued by a Tate County, Miss., judge shows. According to WREG, Ismael Lopez was shot dead by police around 11:30 p.m. Sunday while standing in…
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Miss. Man Accused of Beating 3-Year-Old Girl to Death Over Math Lesson Charged With Capital Murder
A Meridian, Miss., man is accused of beating a 3-year-old girl as hard as he possibly could because she could not answer questions about numbers correctly. Police say that 25-year-old Josh Salovich was teaching numbers to little Bailey Salovich when, they say Salovich explained, the little girl did not give the correct answers, so he…
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Justice for Jasmine: Black Miss. Teen Forced to Share Valedictorian Title Sues
A black mother brought a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district last week, claiming that it made her daughter “co-valedictorian” with a white student who had a lower grade-point average. Jasmine Shepard, the very first black valedictorian in 110 years in the Cleveland, Miss., school district, says that the day before graduation last year,…
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Mo. High School Students ‘Repair’ Vandalized Emmett Till Memorial
A group of high school students on a social justice jaunt across the country helped to restore dignity to a defaced Emmett Till memorial after they came across it in Money, Miss., last week. The Washington Post reports that the group of 24 students, part of the St. Louis-based Cultural Leadership program, traveled the country…