AltWeeklies Wire
Barbour Suspends Scott Sisters’ Sentencesnew
Gov. Haley Barbour has issued orders for the release of Jamie and Gladys Scott, sisters serving life sentences for a 1993 armed robbery.
Jackson Free Press |
Ward Schaefer |
12-30-2010 |
Race & Class
NAACP President: Segregation Still a Problemnew
NAACP President Derrick Johnson's spoke during a community meeting in Jackson, Miss.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
04-05-2010 |
Race & Class
Council of Conservative Citizens Mixes Wedge Issues With Old-Style Race-Baitingnew
Despite their benign-sounding name, the Council of Conservative Citizens have deep, tangled roots in Mississippi's racist, segregationist past. The group's annual conference is in Jackson this weekend.
Jackson Free Press |
Jesse Wright |
06-26-2009 |
Race & Class
Let the Chickens Roostnew
Now is a good a time as any to exorcise the prejudices on both sides. The question is: Who will have the grapefruits to do it first?
Jackson Free Press |
Kamikaze |
03-28-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime in Jenanew
The Jena Six deserve justice, yes. But justice still means that the punishment should fit the crime.
Jackson Free Press |
Maggie Burks |
10-04-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Report from Jena: 'No Justice, No Peace'new
Young people were the majority on Sept. 20 in Jena, La., showing their disapproval of the treatment of six black teenagers.
Jackson Free Press |
Maggie Burks |
09-27-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Some People Talkin'new
Anti-Semitism has a long, bloody history in Europe, far longer than the U.S. has history at all.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-11-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
We Are Family: A Klan Child Fans a Different Flamenew
After a lifetime of unapologetic racism, convicted Klansman James Ford Seale's cousin experienced a religious awakening and became a pastor at a black Baptist church.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
06-28-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Dredging Up the Past: Why Mississippians Must Tell Our Own Storiesnew
As the federal kidnapping trial of alleged klansman James Ford Seale begins, we look at how we got here, how the media gets the story wrong and why Mississippians must tell the full story of past crimes.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
05-31-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Untold Story of African-American Resistance to the Klannew
Despite civil rights mythology, groups like the Deacons for Defense were advocating armed resistance long before the Black Power Movement, and they may even have had help from Malcolm X.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
03-22-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Documentarian Tells the Untold Story of Emmett Louis Tillnew
Keith Beauchamp has produced a documentary that chronicles the events leading up to and after Emmett Louis Till’s murder. It is because of this documentary that the 1955 case was reopened last year.
Jackson Free Press |
Lea Thomas |
12-01-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Day That Emmett Diednew
It was Saturday night, Aug. 27, 1955, when a group of men in Mississippi beat, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a white woman. Lea Thomas revisits the events of his last day.
Jackson Free Press |
Lea Thomas |
12-01-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Evolution of a Man: Lifting the Hood in South Mississippinew
Old Ku Klux Klansmen, and their victims, today live together in South Mississippi. Many of them are learning how to get along with people they used to hate, as they are forced to confront their old ideas about justice.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Daddy Get Upnew
This son of Natchez wants justice for the 1967 Klan murder of his father.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Dear Meadvillenew
The Mississippi Klan killed Thomas Moore's brother Charles Eddie Moore 40 years ago, but he is still seeking justice. Now, he is trying to wake up his hometown.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-27-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
