Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country on Monday. House Bill 1510, the Gestational Age Act, bans abortion after 15 weeks of gestation and makes no exceptions for rape or incest; it does, however, allow for exceptions of the mother’s life is in danger or if the…
Mississippi, a state with just one remaining abortion provider, has moved one step closer to effectively banning the procedure in the state. Earlier this week, the state legislature passed a bill, HB 1510, which bans abortion 15 weeks after a person’s last period, making exceptions only in case of “medical emergency…
Here’s more proof that your local elections, even in a town of 25,500, can make a difference: On February 20, the Board of Aldermen in Starkville, Mississippi, rejected a request to hold its first-ever gay Pride parade with a 4-3 vote.
Jurors were unable to come to an agreement on the fate of a Mississippi man accused of burning a teenager to death in 2014, forcing a judge to declare a mistrial.
Eight people—including a deputy sheriff—were killed in Mississippi on Saturday night after a family dispute allegedly impelled one man to go on a three-home shooting rampage.
In May 2015, Joshua Vallum brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Mercedes Williamson, for fear of others learning that she was transgender. Two years later, 29-year-old Vallum has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for a federal hate crime targeting a transgender woman.
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A sign marking the site where Emmett Till’s mutilated body was dredged from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi more than fifty years ago, was found riddled with some 40 bullet holes last week.
A judge in Mississippi has blocked a law that previously banned Medicaid from spending money with healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood that offers abortions.
PHILADELPHIA—On Thursday morning, I wrote about Jezebel’s hunt for a woman seen wearing the sickest dress at the Democratic National Convention, and also America. On Thursday afternoon, I received an email with the subject line “My Hillary and Obama Fashion Dresses.” “It is my understanding that you are trying to find…
Days after the historic Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas’s unconstitutional abortion laws, federal judges halt the implementation of similarly obstructive laws in Florida.
A day after the Supreme Court preserved abortion rights by declaring Texas’s HB2 unconstitutional, justices rejected two abortion-related bids from Mississippi and Wisconsin. In both cases, the states were seeking a ruling on their laws requiring that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.…
A federal judge has ruled against a Mississippi law that would have allowed court clerks to cite their religious beliefs to refuse to issue marriage licenses or perform marriage ceremonies to same-sex couples. The “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” was widely cited as one of the…
A federal court has ruled that administrators in Cleveland, Mississippi have three weeks to execute a timeline to integrate the small Bolivar County city’s middle and high schools. They have, rather improbably, remained segregated by race since Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case that…
On Thursday evening, Seth Meyers took a closer look at the anti-trans bathroom bills that recently passed in North Carolina and Mississippi. In case you hadn’t realized, both bills are both bad and stupid.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a bill banning a common second trimester abortion method, dilation and evacuation. The bill leaves just a sliver of a loophole, allowing the procedure only to prevent “irreversible physical impairment.” Mississippi has only one abortion clinic, who are quite likely to sue…
In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April as Confederate Heritage Day. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
We’ve all been very riveted by the horrifying sideshow shenanigans of Donald Trump and the rest of the clowns running for the American presidency. But as Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver points out, there are important elections happening in four different states, oh, Tuesday.
Families who attended a parade in Hattiesburg, Mississippi were outraged when they discovered candy in the shape of dicks had been thrown during the event.
The student government at the University of Mississippi voted Tuesday to remove the state flag from campus. The flag contains the Confederate battle flag, and flies near a monument to Confederate soldiers on campus.