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[ July 24, 2024 ] Over 44,000 Black and Brown women rally behind Kamala Harris for President National
[ July 24, 2024 ] Commentary: Sixty years on – Mississippi Burning, Democracy under fire – still led and fanned by white people News
[ July 24, 2024 ] Mississippi Democratic DNC Delegation unanimously endorses Vice President Kamala Harris as nominee for president News
[ July 24, 2024 ] Commentary: State-sponsored discrimination in Minority Contracting, Part 1 White women pocket 88+% of Minority Contracting funds. Lawmakers and leadership must think that’s perfectly okay. News
[ July 17, 2024 ] Baptist Joint Committee stands against Christian Nationalism National

Inmate executed for 17-year-old sex crime

PARCHMAN – A 61-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and repeatedly running over her body with his car was executed by lethal injection last Thursday at Mississippi‘s state prison in Parchman. William J. […]

Mitchell asks US Supreme Court to stop execution

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JACKSON – (AP) William Mitchell will die by lethal injection tonight if the U.S. Supreme Court does not stop his execution. Mitchell’s execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight at the state prison in Parchman. […]

Inmate executed for the sexual assault and murder of boss’ wife

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By Monica Land PARCHMAN – Prison officials said Death Row inmate Larry Matthew Puckett went to his death Tuesday night still claiming he was innocent of the crimes against him. Puckett, 35, was condemned to […]