via BBC News Fears are growing among US residents living along the Mississippi River as rising flood waters threaten communities in states from Illinois to Louisiana. Police officers went door-to-door in Memphis, Tennessee urging residents to leave nearly 1,000 homes near the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Sections of the Mississippi Delta also began to […]
MISSISSIPPI-According to Public Policy a recent poll determined that 46 percent of Republican voters in Mississippi want to have interracial marriage banned. We asked voters on this poll whether they think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal- 46% of Mississippi Republicans said it should be illegal to just 40% who think it should be […]
Mississippi- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour drew mixed reactions from analysts on Wednesday for his decision to push for a civil rights museum for his state ahead of a possible presidential bid.
Nina Simone called it way back in 1964 with her unflinching civil rights anthem, Mississippi Goddam. Apparently, not much has changed since. Today, almost 50 years later, Jamie and Gladys Scott sit in a Mississippi prison, sentenced to double consecutive life sentences for a crime they have steadfastly denied committing. Neither had any previous […]
If you’re black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can’t run for president – only whites need apply.
At least seven people are dead, including two children, after a tornado almost a mile wide tore through Mississippi on Saturday, the state emergency management agency said. The tornado raked cities on the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama, the National Weather Service reported. At least two people were killed and 15 injured […]
