U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the former officers’ actions “egregious and despicable” and imposed sentences near the top ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

bandied about shocking racial slurs, and deployed dangerous, cruel tactics to assault people in their custody,” she added.

The figure was wrapped in tarps the past four years, a symbol of enduring differences over how to commemorate the past. The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, after Mississippi ...

12 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi Oxford Division by the American ... the lawsuit ...

The lawsuit seeks the creation of one Black-majority supervisor districts out of five in DeSoto County. But pundits ...

The Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable has traveled around the state to host trainings called the “Power of the Sister Vote ...

Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable has traveled the state for months to host trainings called the “Power of the Sister Vote ...

Nearly half of renter households spent over 30% of income on housing in 2023, which large rent increases in Maine, New Mexico ...

This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on September 15, the International Day of Democracy, ...

Weeks before Nov. 5, the date of the 2024 election, the vast majority of voters across the country will be able to cast their votes early in person or by mail in most states, if that’s what they’d ...

Runners will line up in downtown Minneapolis before winding through the Twin Cities to the Minnesota State Capitol.