Mississippi

Case Dropped Against Mississippi Child Arrested For Public Urination

11-year-old Quantavious Eason was sentenced to serve three months probation and to write a two-page book report on the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant.
02/08/2024

Atty. Ben Crump Demands Investigation Into the Discovery of 215 bodies Buried in a Pauper's Grave Behind Mississippi jail

Many of the families of the deceased never knew they were buried because they were never contacted by authorities.
01/08/2024

Boy, 11, Arrested For Public Urination, Sentenced To Write Book Report On Kobe Bryant and Three Months Probation

Quantavious Eason was arrested, taken to the police station, and reportedly put in a jail cell on Dec.12.
12/15/2023

Third Man In Mississippi Buried In Pauper's Grave Without Family Knowledge

Jonathan David Hankins died in May but his family didn’t find out he was buried in December.
12/12/2023

Former FedEx Driver Who Says Two White Men Shot At Him Sues For $5M

D’Monterrio Gibson says he was traumatized, but the company directed him to continue working the same route.
12/01/2023

Judge Rules Against Brett Farve In Defamation Suit Against Shannon Sharpe

A federal judge ruled that Sharpe's comments about Farve were "examples of protected, colorful speech referring to needy families in Mississippi.”
11/01/2023

Poverty is Mississippi Voters’ Primary Concern in the Upcoming Election

The state leads the country in poverty rates.
10/20/2023

Black FedEx Driver Fired A Year After He Says White Men Attacked Him

D’Monterrio Gibson said that he was terminated in an email sent by the company after refusing a part-time position.
08/22/2023

Mistrial Declared in Trial of Two White Mississippi Men Who Shot at Black FedEx Driver

Brandon Case and his father Gregory Charles Case were charged with attempted first-degree murder for shooting into the vehicle driven by D’Monterrio Gibson in January 2022.
08/17/2023

Mississippi 'Goon Squad' Officers Admit At Court Hearing To Torturing Two Black Men

‘I hope this is a lesson to everybody out there,’ one of their victims said after seeing the handcuffed white ex-cops.
08/15/2023

Biden To Establish National Monument Honoring Emmett Till And Mamie Till-Mobley

Till’s death and his mother’s activism was a catalyst to the Civil Rights Movement, now a monument to them will be erected.
07/24/2023