Black Man Found Hanging From Tree In Mississippi
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...
View ArticlePolice, FBI Still Investigating Hanging Death Of Black Man In Mississippi
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...
View Article60 Years Later, Mississippi Tries To Come To Terms With The Shameful Death Of...
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 14-year-old young man...
View ArticleThe Criminal Justice System Has Failed — Jail Sentence Of White Girls Who...
In an unbelievable hate crime case, Sara Adelia Graves, 22, and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21, were a part of a racist white supremacist Mississippi gang which hunted and terrorized black people around...
View ArticleGuess How The Ku Klux Klan Celebrated Confederate Memorial Day
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,...
View ArticleMS Speaker Calls For Removal Of Confederate Part Of Flag, Calls It ‘Point Of...
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...
View ArticleThe Latest Mississippi Burning Case: American Indian Activist Dead After...
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...
View ArticleWhoopi Goldberg To Make Movie About Massacre Of Emmett Till
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...
View ArticleConfederate Activist Claims It’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ To Remove Symbol From...
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 typical supporter of the...
View ArticleConfession Of A MS Judge: Rights Are Violated, But Not All The Rights
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...
View ArticleInside The Dark Mind Of A White Mississippi Criminal Court Judge (VIDEO)
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...
View ArticleIs THIS The New Terrorist Flag?
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...
View ArticleReligious Right, GOP Guilty Of Murder If SCOTUS Restricts Abortion
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...
View ArticleBen Carson’s Mississippi Campaign Chair Opposed Civil Rights And Supported...
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 Mississippi campaign...
View ArticleMississippi Man Shoots Waffle House Waitress Dead When She Asks Him Not To Smoke
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 that’s exactly...
View ArticleMS City Councilman Calls For Assaulting Cops Who Chase Into Town
As you’ve probably seen, we at Liberal America have called out police officers who abuse their badges on numerous occasions. But a city councilman in Jackson, Mississippi has gone too far. He has...
View ArticleThis Sick B*st*rd Needs To Be Picked Up By The Ears And Swung Around
A man in Natchez, MS, Charoyd Bell, got arrested for holding puppies up by their ears and tails. He posted pictures of it online along with pictures of his dogs fighting. There is an ongoing...
View ArticlePolitician Tells State Resident He Could ‘Care Less’ About Her Concerns
When your public services are being woefully underfunded then it seems it would make sense to find some way to put money back into those services. After all, you want good schools to ensure that your...
View ArticleMississippi Bill Dismantles Gun Control – Could Unleash ‘God’s Army’ On State
Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant has on his desk a bill called the Church Protection Act which, if he signed it, would allow churches in Mississippi to train armed guards to protect...
View ArticleInterracial Couple Evicted From RV Park In Mississippi For Not Disclosing...
Over the weekend, the landlord of an RV park in Tupelo, Mississippi evicted a married couple because they’re in an interracial marriage. WTF?! Did we just enter a time warp and plummet back to 1961...
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