The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney Todd Gee held a listening session Tuesday for people to bring forward their stories that could potentially be criminal cases involving civil rights ...
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“I haven’t talked to him today, and that’s unusual,” Priscilla Williams Till said of her 19-year-old, Emmett Louis Till Williams – named, she said, for the boy whose 1955 lynching just a few hours’ ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison during hearings in federal court in Jackson this week for their roles in the torture of two Black ...
Two White former Mississippi law enforcement officers who were members of a self-styled “Goon Squad” were sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday to prison after admitting to torturing and abusing two ...
Beyond the courthouse, the “Goon Squad” sentencings also set the stage for people across majority-Black greater Jackson to confront the case’s excruciating truths: from vestiges of slavery to the ...