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FEMA changing rules that deprive African Americans of crucial aid

The guidelines denied aid to many African American applicants whose homes or land were inherited informally without written wills. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior...

Jackson State goes ‘Prime Time’ with Deion as head football coach

Deion Sanders: "I am TRULY proud to be a part of the JSU Tiger family. 'I BELIEVE'" (Image: gojsutigers.com) JACKSON, Miss. — (gojsutigers.com) — A legendary...

Events mark Emmett Till slaying 60 years later

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Sixty years after a Black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a White woman in Mississippi, relatives and civil...

Federal judge denies pair bail over Islamic State charges

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without bail Tuesday,...

Child sex trafficking suspect caught in Mississippi

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ A Pittsburgh-area man indicted last month on child sex trafficking charges has been arrested in Mississippi by federal marshals. The FBI and...

Confederate heritage group loses its Southern influence

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The Sons of Confederate Veterans knew an attack on their cherished symbols would come after seeing photos of the white...

B.B. King recalled with love, humor at Mississippi funeral

  INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) _ B.B. King's early life personified the blues: He was born to dirt-poor sharecroppers in the cotton country of the Mississippi...

Historic club becomes meeting place for King's fans, friends

INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) _ Club Ebony was once a hopping juke joint, a place where blues masters B.B. King, Little Milton and Howlin' Wolf...

Mississippi mourns loss of B.B. King, the “King of the Blues”

JACKSON, MISS. – B.B. King, legendary Mississippi blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, died Thursday, May 14, at age 89. “Mississippi is known the world over...

Mother says son accused in officer killings was drug addict

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) _ One of two brothers accused of fatally shooting two police officers has mental problems and is addicted to drugs, appearing...

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