University Of Mississippi Removes Confederate Statue From Prominent Location To Remote On-Campus Cemetery

University Of Mississippi Removes Confederate Statue From Prominent Location To Remote On-Campus Cemetery

The University of Mississippi on Tuesday began the process of moving a Confederate monument that had stood in a prominent place on campus to a more remote corner of the school’s grounds ABC News reported. Erected in 1906, the statue of a saluting Confederate soldier has stood near the city’s main administration building. Unlike other […]

Mississippi Asks For Public’s Input On How To Replace Confederate Imagery On State Flag

Mississippi Asks For Public’s Input On How To Replace Confederate Imagery On State Flag

A Mississippi state agency is asking for the public’s help in coming up with something to replace part of its flag, after the state decided to remove imagery associated with the Confederacy, ABC News reported. As reported by The Inquisitr, the Magnolia State’s legislature voted in June to retire the state’s flag, which had been […]

Jackson, Mississippi To Remove Statue Of Andrew Jackson From City Hall

Jackson, Mississippi To Remove Statue Of Andrew Jackson From City Hall

The city of Jackson, Mississippi, voted on Monday night to remove a statue of its namesake, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, NBC News reported. Jackson is the second major city to remove a statue of the man for whom the city was named. In a five to one vote, the city council enacted a plan […]

Mississippi County Votes To Keep Confederate Statue, Says Removing It Won’t Solve Racial Problems

Mississippi County Votes To Keep Confederate Statue, Says Removing It Won’t Solve Racial Problems

Officials in Lafayette County, Mississippi, voted Monday night to leave a Confederate statue in place, saying that its removal wouldn’t solve racial problems in the country. As The Daily Journal reported, the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors had not been scheduled to vote on the matter of the monument in downtown Oxford. However, the board […]

Mississippi Lawmakers Vote To Remove Confederate Imagery From State Flag

Mississippi Lawmakers Vote To Remove Confederate Imagery From State Flag

On Sunday, lawmakers in Mississippi voted in favor of removing the Confederate imagery from their state flag, The Washington Post reported. As The Inquisitr reported earlier last week, lawmakers were fairly certain they had the votes to pass the legislation and were confident the change was forthcoming. The state flag, which was the last state […]

Mississippi Legislature Has Enough Votes To Get Rid Of Confederate Imagery On State Flag, Proponents Believe

Mississippi Legislature Has Enough Votes To Get Rid Of Confederate Imagery On State Flag, Proponents Believe

A Mississippi lawmaker believes he has enough votes to change the Magnolia State’s flag, getting rid of Confederate imagery that has adorned it for over 120 years. As NBC News reported, State Rep. Robert Johnson III hopes to see his state change the flag, which has been a lightning rod of controversy for decades. And […]

Mississippi Must Remove Confederate Flag Or SEC Championship Games Won’t Be Played There, League Tells State

Mississippi Must Remove Confederate Flag Or SEC Championship Games Won’t Be Played There, League Tells State

The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Southeastern Conference (SEC) told state officials in Mississippi that unless the Magnolia State ditches Confederate flag symbology from its state flag, the state will lose the opportunity to host an SEC championship game. As NBC News reported, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement that the symbols on […]

Mississippi State Player Fabien Lovett To Transfer After Mike Leach Tweet

Mississippi State Player Fabien Lovett To Transfer After Mike Leach Tweet

Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach has been a bit of a lightning rod over the course of his career. Now his actions have cost him at least one player. Bulldogs defensive tackle Fabien Lovett announced earlier this week he was transferring from MSU, and now his father says a Twitter post Leach sent out […]

Donald Trump Announces ‘Louisiana, I’ll See You Tonight’ A Few Hours Before Rally In Mississippi

Donald Trump Announces ‘Louisiana, I’ll See You Tonight’ A Few Hours Before Rally In Mississippi

Donald Trump had a difficult time keeping his travel plans — and his geography — in order on Friday. Just before before the president was scheduled to visit Mississippi for a “Keep America Great” rally, Trump took to Twitter to announce that he was ready to head to the state of Louisiana. The tweet was […]

Morgan Freeman Converted His Mississippi Farm Into A Honeybee Sanctuary

Morgan Freeman Converted His Mississippi Farm Into A Honeybee Sanctuary

Actor Morgan Freeman is doing his bit for the environment and nature as he has converted his 124-acre farm in rural Mississippi into a honeybee sanctuary. Forbes explains that what started out as a hobby for the 81-year-old actor, has now turned into an enterprise. In 2014, Freeman was a guest on Jimmy’s Fallon’s The […]

Ruby Howell, Mississippi Woman Caught On Video Allegedly Pulling Gun On Black Family, Charged With Misdemeanor

Ruby Howell, Mississippi Woman Caught On Video Allegedly Pulling Gun On Black Family, Charged With Misdemeanor

Ruby Howell — a Mississippi woman who was caught on video allegedly pulling a gun on an African American family who were having a picnic — has been arrested. Howell has been charged with a misdemeanor count of threatening exhibition of a weapon, The Starkville Daily News reports. Howell, whose age has not been released, […]

Viral Video Shows White Campground Employee Pulling Gun On Black Couple Having A Picnic

Viral Video Shows White Campground Employee Pulling Gun On Black Couple Having A Picnic

A white campground employee in Mississippi was caught on video harassing a black family for having a picnic, at one point pulling a gun on them, Slate reports. Facebook user Jessica Richardson, who is African American, was in Starkville, Mississippi last weekend when she and her family decided to stop by a lake to have […]

Mississippi Republican Lawmaker Accused Of Punching Wife Issues Joint Statement With Her, Does Not Apologize

Mississippi Republican Lawmaker Accused Of Punching Wife Issues Joint Statement With Her, Does Not Apologize

Republican lawmaker Doug McLeod is facing a domestic violence charge for allegedly punching his wife when she took too long to undress before sex, and now the couple is speaking out together about the incident — with no apology from Doug. The state representative was allegedly drunk and bloodied his wife’s nose in the attack […]

Obama Robocall Encourages Mississippi Voters To ‘Be In Line’ To Vote Tuesday

Obama Robocall Encourages Mississippi Voters To ‘Be In Line’ To Vote Tuesday

Polls opened on Tuesday for a special runoff election in the state of Mississippi between Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic Party challenger Mike Espy. While voters in the state have likely been inundated with calls from representatives of both campaigns, some have also received calls from a former commander in chief. Former […]

Trump Defends Mississippi Senator Who Said She Would Attend A ‘Public Hanging’

Trump Defends Mississippi Senator Who Said She Would Attend A ‘Public Hanging’

Shortly before jetting off to Florida for the holidays yesterday, President Donald Trump spoke up for Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing extreme backlash for making a comment about sitting “front row” to a public hanging, saying she is a “spectacular woman” who has done a “fantastic job in a short period of time,” […]

Walmart Demands Refund For Donations To Candidate Who Made ‘Public Hanging’ Comments

Walmart Demands Refund For Donations To Candidate Who Made ‘Public Hanging’ Comments

Retail giant Walmart announced on Tuesday it was seeking to get campaign funds back from a Republican candidate who made controversial comments about wanting to attend a “public hanging” earlier this month. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi is set to face off against her Democratic challenger Mike Espy in a runoff election in the […]

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican Mississippi Senator, Says Voter Suppression Is A ‘Good Idea’

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican Mississippi Senator, Says Voter Suppression Is A ‘Good Idea’

Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith joked earlier this month that voter suppression is a “good idea,” although voting-rights advocates don’t find her remark funny at all, Huffington Post is reporting. It appears that on November 3, Hyde-Smith’s campaign bus had stopped at an unidentified college or university in Columbus, Mississippi to rally for votes. Outside […]

Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Jokes About Sitting ‘Front Row’ Of A Public Hanging

Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Jokes About Sitting ‘Front Row’ Of A Public Hanging

A newly released video shows Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith making a joke about attending a public hanging, CBS News reported. In the video, released by the Louisiana news site Bayou Brief publisher Lamar White Jr. on Twitter this morning, Hyde-Smith is seen embracing cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson in front of a group in Tupelo, MS. […]

The US Pay Gap Isn’t Closing

The US Pay Gap Isn’t Closing

According to U.S. News, the pay gap is still substantial and, while it may not be widening, it is not noticeably shrinking either. Women are still “earning 80 cents for every dollar paid to a man in the U.S.” according to a report released by the American Association of University Women. The gap, which “is […]

Mississippi Grandmother Carolyn Jones Charged With Stabbing Toddler, Baking Her In Oven

Mississippi Grandmother Carolyn Jones Charged With Stabbing Toddler, Baking Her In Oven

A Mississippi grandmother has been charged with murder in the gruesome death of her toddler granddaughter, who was found stabbed and baked in an oven, WABC-TV (New York) is reporting. Carolyn Jones, 48, has been charged with murder in the death of Royalty Marie Floyd, in the Mississippi Delta town of Shaw. Authorities say that […]

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