Miss. Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today. Stories helped put 4 KKK members & serial killer behind bars. Author, Race Against Time.
Jackson, United States (Local)
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Jerry Mitchell's coverage predominantly focuses on local government and politics, as well as cultural and societal issues in Mississippi. He often covers evolving stories with a focus on historical events, investigations, and legal policy regulation.
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The Mississippi Department of Archives and History said a collection of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials discovered at the Department of Public Safety can be viewed by the public in its research library in downtown Jackson.
By: Jerry Mitchell
Tameshia Shelton listens to proceedings in Clay County Circuit Court on her quest for a new trial with one of her current attorneys, Tucker Carrington of the Mississippi Innocence Project,
By: Madeline Nguyen, Jerry Mitchell
Tameshia Shelton, a Clay County mother of four serving life in prison on a murder conviction, will finally get what she said she’s been praying for — another day in
The family of Clifton Walker Sr. is appealing to the Wilkinson County Board of Supervisors to rename the road where the World War II veteran was
By: Geoff Pender
"Voter Voices" is a series of Mississippians sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state's history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering push embroiling Mississippi, the South and the nation.
By: Jerry Mitchell
He marveled at the fact he and other Black soldiers had fought in a war that should have granted them all the rights of citizenship, but when they returned home they had to fight racism all over again that barred Black Mississippians from restaurants, restrooms and voting booths.
“Voter Voices” is a series of Mississippians sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state's history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering
By: Jerry Mitchell
Tameshia Shelton's release from prison Monday makes her the seventh person to have their murder conviction thrown out in the same judicial district — a state record.
The Rev. Ed King, former longtime chaplain at Tougaloo College and one of the last living founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, died in Jackson on Saturday.
By: Jerry Mitchell
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