A gang helmsman at Unit 30B of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., shouted a threatening message about some inmates he had singled out from that unit in January 2020.
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BATON ROUGE—Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families of two Southern students who were killed by an unidentified sheriff’s deputy 50 years ago.
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At 12:35 p.m. on Nov. 17, 1972, the phone rang in the office of acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray in Washington.
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Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard Brown, and another student, Denver Smith, were shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy on Southern University’s campus in Baton Rouge in November 1972.
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The knock on the door came at 4 a.m.
Rickey Hill and Herget Harris, two protest leaders at Southern University, peeked out and saw sheriff’s deputies outside their apartment.
Josephine and Denver Smith took different approaches to protests at Southern University in the fall of 1972. Josephine skipped class for meetings, while her older brother stayed away and warned her to be careful.
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Mississippi once again has the country’s highest rate of fetal death, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
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JACKSON, Miss.—Maurice Clifton Jr. complained of chest pain in November 2019. His symptoms progressed until he later died at an Indiana hospital.
His father, Mound Bayou, Miss., native Maurice Clifton Sr., then 54 years old, heard the news about his son’s death while serving his 22nd year of a 33-year sentence in federal prison..
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The secret memoir by the 88-year-old white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case contains new proof she is lying about the night he was killed, said the retired FBI agent who investigated the 1955 murder.
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Mississippi is already the poorest state in the nation, with many women living in rural health care deserts, as well as the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and infant and maternal mortality of any state.
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A new report from The Commonwealth Fund ranked Mississippi last in the nation for health system performance.
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Until last year, Georgia’s Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days.
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