James Meredith honored with historic marker “I almost had tears in my eyes just to meet him and to know he was bold enough to stand up against injustice,” said Betts-Hinds. “As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said an injustice anywhere is an injustice to all.”
Federal probe demanded after students accused of … “No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck,” president Derrick Johnson said Monday during a news conference in Wiggins.
Ole Miss adding slavery info to plaque by Confederate … “These monuments were often used to promote an ideology known as the ‘Lost Cause,’ which claimed that the Confederacy had been established to defend states’ rights and that slavery was not the principal cause of the Civil War,” it will say.
North Korea: Plan to hit Guam waters to be ready … North Korea is working on a plan to fire four missiles into the sea off Guam, which will be ready to present to leader Kim Jong Un by mid-August, state media KCNA reported Thursday.
Religious leaders object to religious objections … More than 30 ministers from around the state and nation published an open letter Monday saying the so-called “religious freedom” law goes against Christian teachings to love and respect all people
Former Ole Miss student gets six months for hanging … Harris pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees
Former Ole Miss student pleads guilty in noose incident He faces up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000
Man charged with hanging noose on statue to plead … University of Mississippi student Graeme Phillip Harris will plead guilty to a charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees
Ole Miss student indicted on civil rights charges … A federal grand jury indicted Graeme Phillip Harris on one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights and one count of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students because of their race or color.
