mississippi
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#TakeItDownAmerica: Fight to Remove Mississippi’s Racist Flag Heads to the Nation’s Capital
On Flag Day (June 14), McComb, Miss., native and actress Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico, The Help) is taking the fight against the state’s flag all the way to the nation’s capital. Ellis will be joined by Michael Eric Dyson, musician Genesis Be and attorney Carlos Moore, along with lawmakers, celebrities and civic leaders from across the country. Moore…
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Miss. Woman’s Stillborn Daughter’s Remains Go Missing From Graveyard
Nine years ago, Amanda Reed gave birth to a stillborn child. She named her daughter Heaven Sent Reed before burying her in a Tunica County, Miss., graveyard. For nine years, Reed has visited the site where her daughter is buried; sometimes she cleans the site, and other times she brings flowers. Sometimes she does both.…