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Corion Evans is being lauded as a hometown hero. The 16-year-old Mississippi teen was recently honored for helping save four lives from the Pascagoula River in Moss Point. According to WLOX, Evans was near the river on Sunday when a vehicle carrying three girls drove into the body of water and began to sink. The teen immediately […]
The family of Emmett Till is demanding the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who was accused of kidnapping the Black teen before he was tortured and lynched. According to Associated Press, members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation are urging authorities to charge Donham in connection to Till’s 1955 murder. The calls were reignited […]
Recently, someone claimed on Reddit that T-Pain went on various Uber trips while in Biloxi, Mississippi and failed to tip the driver, but the 1UP artist denies that’s the case. “My mom drove T-Pain and his lady friends around two nights in a row while Ubering,” read the original post, as T-Pain highlighted in his series of […]
A shooting at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival on Saturday left one person dead and five others injured. NBC affiliate WLBT reports the shooting occurred before 10 p.m. at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that three of the wounded people were stabilized at a local […]
Less than a month after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history, Till’s family are calling for a renewed investigating in the 1955 killing of the Black teen. ABC News reports Emmett Till’s relatives are seeking prosecution against the white woman who set off the […]
An assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school has landed himself in hot water after reading a humorous children’s book titled I Need a New Butt! to a class of second graders. CNN reports Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, Mississippi, was fired last week after reading the book to a Zoom class of […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a statement this week alerting the public about potentially contaminated products from Family Dollar stores following a major rodent infestation at one of the company’s distribution centers, The Guardian reports. Consumers in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, are advised not to use products purchased from the chain since Jan. […]
A 51-year-old convicted murderer who escaped from prison in Mississippi was captured days later after a vehicle he allegedly carjacked ran out of gas, authorities said. In a statement shared Tuesday, the Mississippi Department of Corrections confirmed the manhunt for Michael Floyd Wilson had come “to an end” after his apprehension in Harrison County. Per […]
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has signed medical marijuana into law, saying discussion surrounding the bill has “consumed an enormous amount of space” in the state’s news cycle. The legislation was signed Wednesday and becomes law “immediately,” per the Associated Press, though it will take several months before residents see the opening of the first medical […]
A mayor in Mississippi is being accused of withholding $110,000 in funds from a library over its inclusion of LGBTQ+ reading material, per NBC News. WLBT reports that Mayor Gene McGee of Ridgeland claimed library goers complained about three children’s books and one book for adults, all of which either referenced the community or featured themes or characters, according to executive […]
