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The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird

Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California.

Reason

A hydropower plant could change St. Louis energy. It could also kill a giant river fish

WEST ALTON, Missouri — On the rocky banks of the Mississippi River two dozen miles north of St. Louis, there's a clash brewing between clean energy and wildlife conservation, with both sides aiming to repair damage wrought by humans.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Southern abortion rights advocates arrive in Chicago for ‘Black August Freedom Rides’

Activists from Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi traveled to Chicago to strengthen ties with local organizations as abortion bans go into effect in the South.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Louisiana’s three abortion clinics will close and relocate out of state as anti-abortion law goes into effect

Clinic closures in Louisiana and Mississippi will leave the states without any abortion clinic for the first time in nearly 50 years

The Independent UK

Lawsuit: Mississippi police 'terrorized' small town

Civil rights advocates say in a federal lawsuit that police have “terrorized” residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation

The Independent UK

Elvis Death Anniversary Increases Tourism at His Birthplace

The Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, has welcomed an increasing number of visitors as fans commemorate the 45th anniversary of Presley's death and a new movie reawakens international interest in the singer. Roy Turner was named executive director of the Birthplace last fall after longtime leader Dick…

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Elvis death anniversary increases tourism at his birthplace

The Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum in Mississippi is welcoming an increasing number of visitors as fans commemorate the 45th anniversary of Presley’s death

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Are we the last civilization to fall?

The Cahokia Mounds stand by the Mississippi as a warning from a fallen culture. Do we still have time to heed it?

Salon

American Queen Voyages unveils its longest sailing ever

American Queen Voyages unveiled the longest itinerary in the company’s history – a 23-day “Grand Ohio & Upper Mississippi Rivers” cruise, which will depart from Minneapolis and sail to Pittsburgh aboard American Countess on July 24, 2023.

Tribune News Service

How Austin Riley’s small-town roots in northern Mississippi shaped him

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — DeSoto Central High School’s past and present poetically intersected May 15, 2019.

Tribune News Service

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing

The Independent UK

Mississippi trooper cleared in probe of chokehold video

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says its internal investigation has found no criminal conduct by a white Highway Patrol trooper who used physical force against a handcuffed Black man during an arrest

The Independent UK

In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling

A veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has quietly returned to work in Mississippi more than a year after he was charged with murder in the shooting death of his mentally ill neighbor

The Independent UK

White woman who triggered lynching of black child won't be charged 77 years on

Jurors heard more than seven hours of testimony after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was found last month - 77 years after Emmett Till's killing in the Mississippi Delta in the US

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Tribune News Service

Escaping the ordinary: A Q&A with author and adventurer Rinker Buck

In his new book, Buck sails a flatboat down the Mississippi River and has all kinds of adventures.

ABC News

Who is Carolyn Donham? The catalyst for the Emmett Till lynching who is still alive today

The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 propelled the civil rights movement in the US forward — the woman whose allegations prompted the killing is still alive today.

The Independent UK

OLD Emmett Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham dies, family is still searching for justice

Nobody has been convicted of any crimes in connection with the 14-year-old’s lynching in 1955

The Independent UK

Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago

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The Independent UK

Mississippi grand jury declines to indict white woman whose accusations led to Emmett Till lynching

Brutal 1955 incident helped galvanise civil rights movement

The Independent UK

Viral video of Mississippi arrest sparks investigation

An incident involving a white Mississippi Highway Patrol officer and three Black men is under investigation after a viral video showed the officer putting a handcuffed man into a chokehold and wrestling him into a ditch

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: Bodies of 3 Freedom Summer workers found in Mississippi

On Aug. 5, 1964, authorities located the murdered bodies of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — three Freedom Summer workers in Meridian, Miss. — in a shallow grave in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. Here’s how the Chicago Daily News covered the tragedy.

The Independent UK

‘Guard cat’ named Bandit thwarts armed robbery at owner’s Mississippi home

Bandit, a Mississippi calico, was hailed by her 68-year-old human as a “guard cat”

The Guardian - US

Airbnb apologizes for slave cabin for rent in Mississippi

The listing was lambasted in a viral TikTok video and was taken down by the company

The Independent UK

Airbnb apologises for ‘slave cabin’ listing in Mississippi

Company took action after TikTok of Panther Burn Cottage at Belmont Plantation went viral

Salon

Sex workers are heroes in "P-Valley"

Salon talks to the "P-Valley" creator about centering unheralded essential worker perspectives during the pandemic

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