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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials in the U.S. and abroad

 Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: ___ April 22 Los Angeles Times on illegal possession of a gun being a "violent...

FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man

PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a Black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state...

3 sentenced to prison in slaying of Black man in Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Three young White men who admitted they were out hunting Black people to attack when they beat, ran over and...

Relatives question honor for civil rights workers

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three civil rights workers who were killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in 1964 are going to be posthumously awarded the...

'Bama makes case for No. 1; Florida State survives

There will be a new No. 1 when the College Football Playoff rankings come on next week. It might just be Alabama — and the...

Cover To Cover…‘In Remembrance of Emmett Till’

What can you say about tragedy? When it’s imminent, you brace yourself and hope to come out unscathed. In its aftermath, you mourn and, eventually,...

FEC filing: pro-Cochran PAC funded Black outreach

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A super PAC backing six-term Sen. Thad Cochran funded an outside group that urged Black voters to support the Republican's...

GOP’s reverse ‘Southern Strategy’

(NNPA)—Last week’s election results infuriated me and not for the reasons you might suspect.  My anger has less to do with the outcomes of...

Right-wing gets it wrong on Mississippi

(NNPA)—If you ever doubted that conservatives were sore losers, the recent Senate election in Mississippi should remove all doubt. After complaining for a half century...

Continuing the work of 'Freedom Summer'

(The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. This...

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