Tag: Mississippi
Attorney Demands Firing of Mississippi Police Officer after 11-Year-Old Boy is Shot
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the...
Order Temporarily Blocks Appointed Judges in Mostly Black City and County in Mississippi
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge Friday temporarily blocked the appointment
of four state court judges in the majority-Black...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till’s False Accuser, Dies at 88
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches...
Mississippi Violates Rights by Appointing Judges
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is violating its own constitution with a new law that requires some judges to...
NAACP Sues Mississippi Over ‘Separate and Unequal Policing’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a...