As a former smoker, I can fully appreciate that there are times when you really need a cigarette, but I was never so desperate to smoke that I felt a need to kill another person.
But...
Ben Carson may want to be a bit more careful in the future about who he decides to associate with. Then again, it may be far too late for that.
Friday, Dr. Carson announced the new...
More women die from childbirth than they do from having an abortion every single year. That’s a fact. Abortion is the single safest surgical procedure a woman can have. That is also a fact. Abortion...
A Mississippi man threw a bomb into his local Wal-Mart in protest of the removal of the Confederate flag from its shelves. Marshall Leonard, usually seen driving his rusted out car with the four-foot Confederate...
Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon recently sat down with Fault Lines correspondent Anjali Kamat with the Aljazeera America network. Judge Gordon preceded to explain how the criminal justice system worked in Mississippi. His...
Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon is no stranger to tough cases. He is the judge who presided over the 2005 case involving Edgar Ray Killen's role in the Ku Klux Klan-ordered assassination of...
Confederate Activist Claims It’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ To Remove Symbol From Mississippi Flag
Liberal America
In my line of work, you run across more than your fair share of WTF?! stories from time to time, but this one may just jump to the top of my list.
Craig Haden is your...
Next Friday will mark 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to visit relatives, only to be brutally murdered for allegedly making inappropriate comments to a white woman. The sight of...
The Latest Mississippi Burning Case: American Indian Activist Dead After Minor Traffic Offense
Liberal America
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians activist, Rexdale Henry, was found dead in jail under nearly the same conditions as Sandra Bland. In fact, the circumstances surrounding both cases are eerily similar.
Henry, 53, was stopped and...
Just hours after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from her state's capitol grounds, the speaker of the Mississippi state house called for the removal of the...
So, how did you celebrate Confederate Memorial Day yesterday? What, you didn't celebrate? Don't feel bad, because I didn't either. Why? Well, mainly because I'm not a redneck, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobe jackass who wants to...
American Injustice System — Jail Sentence Of White Girls Who Hunted Black People In Mississippi (NEW VIDEO)
Joe Clark
In an unbelievable hate crime case from 2015, Sara Adelia Graves, 22, and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21, were part of a racist white supremacist Mississippi gang that hunted and terrorized black people around the Jackson,...
60 Years Later, Mississippi Tries To Come To Terms With The Shameful Death Of Emmett Till
Liberal America
The crime remains one of the most horrific reminders of the Deep South as it used to be: In 1955, in the tiny Mississippi town of Sumner, two white men abducted, beat, and shot a...
The mysterious death of a 54-year-old black man who was found hanging from a tree in the woods near where he lived in rural Mississippi is still under investigation, according to the FBI, which is...
The FBI is assisting authorities in Claiborne County, Mississippi, as they investigate the death of an African-American man found hanging in a tree late this afternoon.
Local police found the man's body, identified by the NAACP...
Jackson County, Mississippi, Deputy Sheriff Michael Slater, lost his job when he taunted a fellow XBox Live player and hurled a racial epithet at him. Slater had been a deputy for three years, according to...
For five days in the Fall of 1921, as many as 10,000 coal miners stood up for their rights as hard working Americans and engaged in what would become the greatest insurrection on U.S. soil...
Earlier this week, Gene Alday, a Republican state representative in Mississippi, sparked a national firestorm when he said that all of the blacks in his hometown would sooner live off welfare than find a job....
A state representative in Mississippi is catching well-deserved heat after saying that the blacks in his hometown would rather spend "welfare crazy checks" than get a job.
Gene Alday represents the state's 25th house district, located...
Mississippi Won’t Allow This Teacher To Show Kids How To Use Condoms. He Found A Brilliant Solution
Joe Clark
In Mississippi, as in many states, educators are forced to teach abstinence as a valid birth control and disease prevention method. Teachers are prohibited from any demonstration of how condoms or other contraceptives are applied.
76% of Mississippi...