Two hit-and-run deaths in rural Mississippi just a few miles apart highlight a disturbing problem about data collection on possible hate crimes. (Source: CNN)
Black Panthers Revisited
This short documentary explores what we can learn from the Black Panther party in confronting police violence 50 years later.
A Sharecropper’s Voice: Odell McNeal
Odell McNeal is interviewed about his days working as a sharecropper in Mississippi in the 1940s and 1950s. He breaks down when he tries to talk about how hard his mother worked to raise her family.
James Meredith Recounts Integrating Ole Miss
The activist, author and first black graduate of the University of Mississippi remembers his integration of the school not as a struggle for civil rights but for citizenship. Meredith talks about the strength he got from his belief in God,…
‘BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY’: Director Reports a ‘Chilly Silence’ About Film From Some Greenwood Residents
By Gregory Crofton In 1965, Frank De Felitta traveled to Greenwood, Miss., to shoot the NBC documentary “MISSISSIPPI: A SELF PORTRAIT.” The murder of three civil rights workers in 1964 just outside Philadelphia, Miss., as well as other race-related crimes…