Congressman: Mississippi jail death ‘equal to the George Floyd situation’

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson is asking the Justice Department to investigate the 2018 jail death of Robert Loggins in Grenada.

Black Caucus calls for Justice Department investigation

Mississippi’s Legislative Black Caucus is asking the Justice Department to investigate the 2018 death of Robert Loggins inside the Grenada County Jail.

George Floyd wasn’t the only one to die after an officer kneeled on him. So did Mississippi’s Robert Loggins.

Mississippi now has its own George Floyd case.

A video obtained by the Mississippi Center of Investigative Reporting shows Robert Loggins rolling when officers and jailers get on top of him inside the Grenada County Jail, with one officer appearing to kneel on his neck or head.

See the photo Emmett Till’s mother wanted you to see — the one that inspired a generation to join the civil rights movement.

Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, wanted the world to see “what they did to my baby.”

Presumed Innocent, And Dead

Best-selling author John Grisham reflects on the racial inequities in America's criminal justice system.

Ole Miss reaches crossroads in racial justice

The tipping point to a decades-long debate at Ole Miss came 900 miles from the north with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a police officer.

A pandemic has hit America. When are we going to deal with it?

The pandemic started far from our nation, but the disease soon struck our shores.

Our leaders downplayed the possible harm, and before long, Americans began to be infected at an alarming rate.

George Floyd’s killing resurrects nightmares for families of civil rights martyrs

The scenes play over and over again in the mind of civil rights pioneer Myrlie Evers.

A white police officer in Minneapolis kneels on the neck of a black man who keeps saying, “I can’t breathe,” until he lies motionless.