Travis McMichael’s attorney painted Satilla Shores, where McMichael killed
Ahmaud Arbery last year, as stricken with crime, its residents as living in fear
and his client as a well-trained former Coast Guardsman who was only protecting
himself and his neighborhood.
Charles Moose, who helmed the Montgomery County Police Department when authorities arrested the DC snipers, has died, according to a department Facebook post.
It’s not just that US Supreme Court majorities upheld Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and overturned Roe v. Wade. The opinion also skewed the crux of the conversation going forward – with just three words.
Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is unabashed in using rap lyrics to help prosecute her cases, repeatedly defending the practice in recent months. It’s a tactic hip-hop artists have decried as a racist double standard for years.
The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions.
Years of neglect at Lebanon Cemetery had caused many grave markers to vanish – hidden by weeds or pulled by gravity into the earth. But in recent months a dedicated group of volunteers have found more than 800 buried headstones – unearthing decades of Black history.