mississippi
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Miss. NAACP: White Students Put Noose Around Black Student's Neck, 'Yanked Backward'
White students at a Mississippi high school put a noose around a black schoolmate’s neck and “yanked backward,” the state NAACP revealed Monday, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, Mississippi NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel said the incident took place Oct. 13 at a field house at the Stone County High School in Wiggins,…
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Fundraiser to Replace Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign Exceeds $15,000 Goal
A fundraiser started to replace a memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 has exceeded its $15,000 goal, the New York Daily News reports. The memorial sign captured nationwide attention last week after filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr. posted a photo showing the sign riddled with…
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Emmett Till Memorial Sign Discovered Riddled With Bullet Holes
A memorial sign that marks the location where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 was found riddled with bullet holes, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, it is not the first time that the sign has been vandalized since it was put in place in…
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Miss. Teacher Caught on Video Dragging Special-Needs Student by the Hair
A Mississippi special education teacher has been fired after video emerged of her dragging a special-needs student by the hair across a gymnasium floor, the Washington Post reports. In the video, the teacher at Greenville High School can be seen pinning the girl down by her hair while another student pokes her, before grabbing the…
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2 More Miss. Universities Take Down State Flag
Mississippi State University and the Mississippi University for Women are the latest public universities in the Magnolia State that will not be flying the state flag on their campuses. The Mississippi state flag is the only one in the U.S. that shows the Confederate battle emblem in its upper left-hand corner. The Clarion Ledger reports…
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Miss. Cop Fired After Viral Video Shows Him Soliciting Sex
A Jackson, Miss., police officer was fired after video surfaced of him soliciting sex, reportedly from a teen, on Facebook, WAPT reports. In the minute-long video, which includes graphic language, the officer can be heard telling the young lady, “Man, you look like you’re scared to f—k.” “You said you wasn’t going to school,” the…
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Miss. Woman Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Trying to Help Islamic State
A Mississippi woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday, Reuters reports. According to the newswire, Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, will serve a 12-year sentence, followed by 15 years of supervised release once she is let out of prison, according…
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Mom of Miss. Infant Who Died in Hot Car Wants Charges Against Father Dropped
The mother of a Mississippi infant who authorities say died after being left in a hot car while in the care of her father has signed an affidavit asking for all charges to be dropped, the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger reports. Shanice Caradine, the mother of 8-month-old Shania Caradine, in the affidavit making her request called…
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Mississippi Burning Case Closed After 52 Years
Mississippi officials have decided to close the investigation into the killings of three young civil rights organizers by the Ku Klux Klan, more than five decades after the young men disappeared, NPR reports. According to the report, the case had been closed for decades but was later reopened after public outcry. Now officials have decided that…