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On this day in 1974
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Thu,08/01/24-11:34AM , 491 Reads 4,827 Statewide
Aug. 1, 1974

Beverly Johnson made fashion history when she became the first Black model to appear on the American cover of Vogue magazine.
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- The freedom marker honoring civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman is unveiled in Philadelphia, Miss., on Friday, June 14, 2024. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
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Freedom Summer’s lasting impact: ‘They never forgot their mission’
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,07/01/24-2:58PM , 908 Reads 6,460 Statewide

Freedom Summer did more than change Mississippi. It changed America.
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- Karissa Bowley, left, stands with her brother, Spencer Bowley, and mother, Bonnie Bowley, as she is consoled during a press conference about the death of her husband, Dau Mabil, in Jackson, Miss., on Friday, June 14, 2024. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
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Dau Mabil’s widow, her family say they seek justice for him
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Tue,06/18/24-1:20AM , 537 Reads 2,627 Statewide
Karissa Bowley and her family say they support all efforts to find justice for the late Dau Mabil, despite implications by others to the contrary.

“Dau was special before he ever married me,” his widow told reporters in a Friday press conference. “I’m just here, missing him.”
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- Desmond Green, wrongfully detained for two years on a false capital murder charge, is homeless, jobless, and suffering health issues without insurance, and has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the doctrine of qualified immunity, which a U.S. District Judge has allowed to proceed to potentially force the Supreme Court to address. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
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Judge: Juries, not judges, should rule on officers’ ‘bad acts’
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Fri,05/24/24-4:50PM , 945 Reads 7,476 Statewide
For more than a half-century, the qualified immunity doctrine has barred many from suing law enforcement officers who were guilty of bad acts. Could a decision by a federal judge in Mississippi help bring that doctrine to an end?
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