mississippi
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Netflix Invests $100 Million in Black-Led Financial Institutions
Netflix announces $100 million investment in Black-led banks to “help close the wealth gap.”
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Black Farm Workers In Mississippi Aim to Sue Their Employers
Big Agriculture is importing South Africans and illegally paying them more, they say
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NASCAR Driver Denny Hamlin Puts on for HBCUs With a Little Help From FedEx’s Shaping Black Futures Initiative
Three-time Daytona 500 winner will debut a custom paint job with the logos of four different HBCUs at this weekend's Daytona race.
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Where Did All the White People Go? Ranking the Blackest and Whitest Places in America, According to the New Census Data
We looked at the new data from the U.S. Census Bureau to rank the Blackest and whitest places in America.
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Case Files for 1964 Lynchings of Civil Rights Activists Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Made Public for the First Time
These are the kinds of American stories a certain political party would rather history just forget. This one isn't even 60 years old.
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The Queen of Basketball Gives Lusia Harris Her Long-Overdue Flowers
If you've never heard of Lusia Harris, The Queen of Basketball seeks to resolve that problem.
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White Cops Take Trophy Hunting Photo of Smiling Black Bank Robbery Suspect, and We Have Questions
KRS-One taught me that “overseers” said fast enough and over a long period of time sound a lot like “officers” in his seminal text, “Sound of da Police,” so it isn’t shocking to me that cops do corrupt things. But I definitely have a ton of questions for the police in Prentiss, Miss., the news…
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Black Man Who Spent 25 Years on Mississippi's Death Row Released From Prison After Evidence is Discredited
A Black man in Mississippi who spent over 25 years on death row has been freed after key evidence used in his conviction was discredited. According to the Associated Press, the now 67-year-old Eddie Lee Howard was convicted of capital murder multiple times in the 1992 stabbing death of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp. District Attorney Scott Colom…
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New Technology Could Provide Police Access to Real-Time Footage From Home Security Cameras
I don’t know why anyone thought this was a good idea, but apparently Jackson, Miss. is experimenting with a pilot program that would give police the ability to access real-time video surveillance from your home security camera. So did none of these people play Watch Dogs? Watch Psycho-Pass? Consume literally any media about the dangers…
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Wants to Set Aside $3 Million on 'Patriotic Education Fund'
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) seems dead set on doing everything but addressing the pandemic currently ravaging his state. His latest venture into headassery is calling for $3 million of the state’s budget to be set aside for the “Patriotic Education Fund.” According to The Hill, the funding would go to schools that don’t engage…