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AP An interactive kiosk, left, sits across from the PBS Frontline’s traveling augmented-reality exhibit, “Un(re)solved,” in the special exhibit room. The exhibit was opened Aug. 28 to align with the commemoration of the death of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. (By AP)

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Exhibit focuses on killings of civil rights era
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,09/21/21-2:00AM , 1175 Reads
JACKSON — An interactive exhibit in Mississippi prompts visitors to speak aloud the names of people who were killed in acts of racist violence in the United States during the civil rights era — incantations in a darkened room to honor some 150 men, women and children whose lives were cut short.
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Analysis: Mississippi examines help for departing inmates
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,09/10/21-5:40PM , 365 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi law that took effect July 1 expands parole eligibility, and lawmakers are looking at programs that could help people make the transition from prison back into the free world.
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Quality of Mississippi prison water at center of dispute
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,09/10/21-4:35PM , 258 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Longstanding problems with water and sewer systems are endangering inmates' health at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, two groups said Friday.
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Richard Strong, 50, left, his brother Gregory Strong, 48, center, and Stacy Griffin, 42, are among six Black farmworkers in Mississippi who say in a new lawsuit that their former employer, Pitts Farm Partnership, has brought white laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants significantly more for the same type of work. (AP)

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Lawsuit: Farm hired white immigrants over Black US laborers
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,09/10/21-2:00AM , 770 Reads
JACKSON — Six Black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought white laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.
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Chance of Rain: 90%
Max Temp: 81°F
Min Temp: 68°F
Feels Like: 75°F
Dew Point: 66°F
Humidity: 84%
Sunrise: 6:21 AM
Sunset: 6:02 PM

Wind Speed: 5 to 10 mph
Wind Direction: SSW
Wind Gust: 12 mph
Sky Cover: 77%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dew Point: 66°F
Moon Rise: 10:27 PM
Moon Set: 8:16 AM

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