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Officials: Woman to fill Senate vacancy in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state's governor will appoint Mississippi's first female member of Congress to fill the Senate vacancy that will soon be created when veteran Sen. Thad Cochran retires, three state Republicans told The Associated Press on T...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges Hall: Ban assault weapons
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ruby Bridges Hall, who faced threats and harassment when she integrated a southern school as a child several decades ago, said Friday that she is distressed by mass shootings in U.S. schools. "When I think about our babies t...
'Mississippi Burning' KKK leader Killen dies in prison at 92
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the "Mississippi Burning" slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department a...
Cousin who saw Emmett Till being kidnapped dies at age 74
CHICAGO (AP) — Simeon Wright, who was with his cousin Emmett Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped in 1955 after whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, has died. He was 74. Till, who was 14, spent the summer of 1955 visiting relatives in M...
Entrenched poverty tough to shake in the Mississippi Delta
JONESTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi Delta. During a summer that feels like a s...
Children's advocate to revisit poverty in Mississippi Delta
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The founder of a children's advocacy group returns to Mississippi next week to examine how poverty affects people's lives, much like Sen. Robert F. Kennedy did 50 years ago. Marian Wright was a civil rights attorney working i...
