July 16, 2015 in News
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa Editor Recently the Jackson City Council passed an ordinance requiring local law enforcement officials undergo training to accurately report and document hate crimes committed in the […]
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The last of 10 young white adults who repeatedly assaulted black people in Mississippi’s capital city is set for sentencing Friday. […]
(AP) A final pair of sentencings Thursday was supposed to wrap up the long-running federal prosecution into a group of young white men and women whose repeated assaults on African-Americans […]
April 10, 2015 in News
(AP) Two white women in Mississippi, who were riding in a truck that ran over a black man who was beaten, will be sentenced today. The women were part of a group who […]
February 22, 2015 in News, Opinion, The Buzz
The Mississippi Link Newswire What follows is the speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves that he read to the three young white defendants right before he sentenced them for […]
January 20, 2015 in News, The Buzz
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Sentencing dates have been set for all 10 people who pleaded guilty to charges from the hate crimes investigation stemming from the death of James Craig […]
January 8, 2015 in News, The Buzz
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A group of young white men and women who killed a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2011 had periodically roamed the city that spring, attacking […]
January 6, 2015 in News, The Buzz
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for two men charged in a series of 2011 racial beatings that culminated in the death of a Jackson man. Court […]
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