The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 propelled the civil rights movement in the US forward — the woman whose allegations prompted the killing is still alive today.

Washington (AFP) - A grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict a white woman whose accusation that Black teenager Emmett Till propositioned her in 1955 led to his abduction and murder, which helped sparked the civil rights movement, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

On Aug. 5, 1964, authorities located the murdered bodies of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — three Freedom Summer workers in Meridian, Miss. — in a shallow grave in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. Here’s how the Chicago Daily News covered the tragedy.

Bandit, a Mississippi calico, was hailed by her 68-year-old human as a “guard cat”

The listing was lambasted in a viral TikTok video and was taken down by the company

Company took action after TikTok of Panther Burn Cottage at Belmont Plantation went viral

Salon talks to the "P-Valley" creator about centering unheralded essential worker perspectives during the pandemic

RENTON, Wash. — Maybe it was as simple as this.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R), joined by 21 Republican attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on July 26, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that aimed to overturn guidance from the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service.…