Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media When the ngoni enters the Juke Joint in Sinners, the room shifts. The sound is small, sharp, ancient, almost easy to miss if you’re only listening for volume. But that little stringed voice opens a door. Suddenly, the blues is not alone in Mississippi. It has ancestors in […]
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Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media In the hushed moments before the Surreal Montage in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners becomes a portal that transcends time, space, and language, Delta Slim leans toward Sammie and says, “Tell ’em who you are, where you from.” It lands like advice, but it feels closer to ritual instruction. Because […]
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Source: Radio ONE / General Firefighters with the Chicago Fire Department responded to a call about a fire in Grant Park at around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, and what they found was a cross burning at the park, which, of course, immediately sparked fears that white supremacists were in the Windy City engaging in Klan-destine activities. […]
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Prosecution used racist stereotypes to dismiss Black jurors, but trial judge accepted the ‘race-neutral’ reasons Supreme Court overturned the conviction, citing ‘confusion, oversight, or an overly hurried jury selection process’ Decision is a rare win for the court, which has gutted voting rights and affirmative action in recent rulings Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty After […]
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Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty The hits really don’t stop coming. As if the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act last week wasn’t bad enough, on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led redistricting effort was unconstitutional. AP News reports that, in a 4-3 ruling, the court found […]
Read MoreWhile the complaint began as a general look at the newspaper’s hiring and promotions, the case, personally handled by EEOC Chair Andrea Lucus, soon became a specific question over whether the white employee did not get a deputy editor job. On April 21, the EEOC told the newspaper that the case had been referred to […]
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Source: Peter Dazeley / Getty In a quick reversal of a lower court’s decision, the Supreme Court on Monday paused a 5th Circuit ruling that banned the mailing of Mifepristone, an abortion drug. Issued by Justice Samuel Alito, the brief order holds off on enforcing the telehealth ban while litigation continues. The case is one […]
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Speaking on CNN’s The Source Wednesday, Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, challenged Trump’s claim, arguing that mobsters just don’t talk like that. “There was a point in my life where I spent the better part of my waking hours either talking face-to-face with real-world mobsters, or listening to them talk to each other over […]
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Source: Alcorn State University / Getty Alcorn State University announced it would be the first HBCU to fully integrate AI as part of a statewide initiative with NVIDIA and Mississippi’s educational institutions. Mississippi Today reported in June 2025 that the initiative aims to train at least 10,000 Mississippians through a curriculum focused on AI skills, […]
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Source: J. Janice Coleman / facebook An English professor at the Mississippi HBCU Alcorn State University has sewn a quilt honoring civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. In an interview with Mississippi Today, Professor J. Janice Coleman explained her history with quilting and what led her to make a quilt honoring Fannie Lou Hamer. She […]
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Source: Mississippi Department of Public Safety / MDPS So, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety says it stumbled across a Ku Klux Klan robe, handbook, membership lists, and propaganda while cleaning out a closet for a move. The items were packed inside a small blue suitcase that had been tucked away and forgotten, as if […]
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So, officials with a law enforcement agency in Mississippi were cleaning out their headquarters’ closet and found a KKK handbook, and, well — no, no, this is completely surprising news. According to Mississippi Today, Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials were cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new location when they came […]
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But Iran’s foreign ministry quickly denied the news and claimed that there has been “no dialogue” between the two countries, with one top official adding that Trump “retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia.” When questioned about Iran’s response later on Monday morning, Trump stuck to his story. […]
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Source: WISH-TV / WISH-TV Officials in Mississippi, including the authorities at one of the state’s prisons, are under fire and under investigation, as it appears they have lied about the death of a man, who was said to have died of a heart attack when he actually died from blunt force trauma. Mississippi Today reported […]
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