‘Y’all Going to Kill Me?’ Years Apart, Mother and Son Die in Police Restraints

GRENADA, Mississippi — Robert Loggins wandered into a neighbor’s backyard and fell down, crying for help. A woman dialed 911, telling the operator, “Please hurry!”

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Jo-Ed Edwards disappeared in a Klan-suspected abduction. His body’s never been found.

Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed slaying, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury.

“The entire system is not designed for men”: how America silences and fails to help Native American men who survive domestic violence

The domestic violence experienced by Native American women makes headlines…
But a 2016 report from the National Institute of Justice found that 4 in 5 Native American men have experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime, too.

Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases?

A retired FBI agent was at a Christian retreat in the late 1990s when a churchgoer confided he had witnessed a shooting of five Black men in 1960 that he believed had been racially motivated.

Over the past 3 years, diabetes has killed more Americans than all the wars over the past century. Mississippi is ‘ground zero’ in that fight.

Bombs are exploding across the nation, with injuries and casualties reaching the millions, but few recognize the war that is taking place, experts say.

That war is diabetes, and Mississippi is ground zero, the only state in the nation where every county is in what researchers call the diabetes belt.

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A case that ‘flips justice on its head’: Victim, not shooter, convicted in 1960 bloodbath

More than six decades ago a grand jury assembled to hear a grisly case. Four Black men had been shot to death and a fifth seriously wounded in a hail of gunfire on Ticheli Road near Monroe, Louisiana.

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‘Mr. Fuller has shot his men’

MONROE, La. -- In the rural neighborhood around Ticheli Road, the sound of multiple gunshots erupted in the early morning quiet of July 13, 1960.

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‘You don’t go in Mr. Fuller’s yard’

During the 1950s in northeast Louisiana, future Klansman Robert Fuller was a familiar face to law enforcement.

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‘Trust, But Verify’: Judge Orders Monitor For State Mental Health System, Adopts Recommendations ‘In Full’

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves submitted his ruling on the tumultuous lawsuit over Mississippi’s mental health-care system late last night, mandating the appointment of an external monitor to verify progress toward constitutional treatment of residents.

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‘How Much Is Enough?’ State, Feds Debate Mental Health System

Parties to a long-debated lawsuit against Mississippi’s mental health-care system made their final appeals to U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Monday, setting the stage for his judgment on how Mississippi will mend its community mental-health offerings in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.