Graduations are meant to be special moments between students and their families, but one family is now facing charges for cheering on their relatives during a high school graduation in Mississippi. Two family members of Senatobia High School graduate Lanarcia Walker and two others were issued warrants after cheering on Walker and another student at the school’s […]
The Department of Justice said there is no evidence that Otis Byrd, 54, who was found hanging from a tree in rural Mississippi in March, was lynched and the investigation into his death has been closed, NBC News reports. RELATED: Body Of Missing African-American Man Found Hanging From Tree In Mississippi [VIDEO] Preliminary Autopsy Results Suggest […]
President Barack Obama encouraged the nation to work harder to heal rifts between police and citizens during a Friday ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in honor of fallen police officers. The president delivered the remarks in front of law enforcement officers and the families of fallen officers amid national tensions regarding police brutality in Black communities, including protests over […]
.@SUBWAY you have employees advocating cop killing while in work uniform. pic.twitter.com/Y25mJr7JXq — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 10, 2015 A Subway restaurant worker is out of a job after posting a Facebook status that celebrated the slayings of two police officers this weekend in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, according to The New York Daily News. Sierra (C-Babi) Mccurdy […]
The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to investigate the case. The family of the 54-year-old has hired Michael Baden to conduct an independent investigation on Byrd’s body, refusing to believe he took his own life, reports the Clarion-Ledger. Because the […]
Authorities have yet to confirm if a missing man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last week was killed or committed suicide, but the FBI is now consulting with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (or “profilers”) to break the case. Otis Byrd, 54, was found with a sheet around his neck near his Port Gibson […]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a tree in Mississippi Thursday, suggests the cause of death was suicide. Investigators, however, have not yet released Byrd’s official cause of death. “Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly,” Special FBI […]
UPDATE: 5:30 P.M. EST The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP has announced that the man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi is 54-year-old Otis Byrd. WLBT reports: In a news release, the FBI say the body was found during a ground search by the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. Otis James […]
Republican Mississippi state Rep. Gene Alday (pictured) is backtracking on an interview that was published by a local paper where he allegedly made incendiary and blanketed racist comments about the Black population in his small town. Alday reportedly stated that “all the Blacks ” in his district get “welfare crazy checks” because “they don’t work,” according […]
As many throughout the nation continue rise up to let their voices be heard against social injustices and the tyranny of abusive police-action, protestors in Desoto County, Mississippi were subjected to a barrage of racial taunts where the n-word and other obscenities were hurled at them by passersby, according to WREG. Local TV reporters were covering a protestors march in Desoto’s Horn Lake […]
Sen. Kenny Wayne Jones (D), chairman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, received backlash from caucus members after defending controversial comments made by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. After last week’s election, Barbour referred to President Barack Obama‘s policies as “tar babies” during a conversation with his lobbying firm. Two sources leaked the incident and, in an email […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]
