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TRUMANN, Ark. – – A Trumann, Arkansas woman says she’s the victim of continued racism. The latest incident happened Friday afternoon when Nedra Cook says her neighbor, Steve Howard Jr., drove up and pointed a gun at her. “It was meant to intimidate me and it did,” Cook said. It’s all part of an on-going […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi,” takes its tune from a 1959 campaign jingle of Democratic Gov. Ross Barnett. “Roll With Ross” included the lyrics, “For segregation, 100%. He’s not a moderate, like some of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The charge against the man accused of threatening Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer was reportedly dismissed Thursday morning. George Johnson was facing a misdemeanor assault charge after he was seen on camera yelling profanities at Sawyer while waving a confederate flag in June of 2021. Johnson was part of the crew moving […]

Harris is traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The nation’s first female vice president — as well as the first African American and Indian American in the role— will speak at the site often referred to as hallowed ground in the fight for voting right for minority citizens.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi county has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze statue of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Leflore County supervisors voted on the contracts Monday, about seven months after they initially agreed that the county would […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County Commissioner said she wants legal action after years of harassment from white supremacists. For almost four years, Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer says she’s been harassed by George Johnson of Mississippi. He is believed to be a member of a group called Confederate 901. Johnson was accused of threatening […]

What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state’s roadsides — and the language used to tell them. The increased […]

A time capsule from inside the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, has finally been opened over a century after being buried inside the statue’s pedestal. Nexstar’s WRIC was there to see what was in the box.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A controversial symbol is being removed from a landscape of Memphis.  President Biden signed a bill into law yesterday that will remove the name of Clifford Davis from the Federal Courthouse Downtown.  Davis was a judge in the 1920’s and in the 1940’s became a U.S. Congressman representing Memphis.  But he was […]

Crews working to remove the pedestal at the former spot of a Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, crews found a time capsule that could be from as far back as 1887.