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Court hears debate over pre-clearance section of Voting Rights Act

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:58:38 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is wrestling with the fate of a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote. In an argument at the court, liberal and conservative justices engaged in a sometimes tense back and forth over whether there is an ongoing need [...]

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Tornado damage assessments continue as President declares disaster

Associated Press — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:21:58 +0000

SOIUTH MISSISSIPPI — President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in the State of Mississippi following a massive tornado that destroyed or heavily damaged more than 800 homes in the southern part of the state. Obama signed the declaration yesterday and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in Forrest and Lamar [...]

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Judge rejects Delta school district’s desegregation plan

Associated Press — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:50:40 +0000

CLEVELAND — A federal judge has rejected a desegregation plan submitted by the Cleveland School District that relied on creation of magnet programs to attract whites to schools that are predominately black. The Bolivar Commercial reports U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson’s ruling came this past week. In Cleveland, two middle schools and two high [...]

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Investigators: Social media at heart of election night incident at UM

MBJ Staff — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:33:52 +0000

OXFORD — The University of Mississippi faculty/staff Incident Review Committee (IRC) assigned to determine the facts of a widely reported election night incident has released its report, finding that student misrepresentations on social media, including Facebook and Twitter, were fuel for the events that happened on campus that night. The IRC has forwarded the names [...]

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Judge gives Justice more time to review school plan

Associated Press — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:19:16 +0000

CLEVELAND — A federal judge says he will rule after the first of the year on proposals to desegregate two schools in the Cleveland School District. The Bolivar Commercial reports U.S. District Judge Glenn H. Davidson told attorneys after a hearing in Oxford that he wanted to give the Department of Justice time to review [...]

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Federal judge to weigh Delta schools’ desegregation plan

Associated Press — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:17:47 +0000

CLEVELAND — A federal judge will hear arguments Dec. 11 in Oxford on proposals to desegregate two schools in the Cleveland School District. In May, the school district filed a proposal with the federal court to desegregate the East Side High School and D.M. Smith Middle School. The school system wanted to introduce magnet programs [...]

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Judge denies supervisor’s request concerning redistricting

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:36:57 +0000

JACKSON — A federal judge has denied a request by Hinds County Supervisor Phil Fisher and the Republican Party to bar the county from using its new redistricting plan in November elections, which involves only the five local election commission members. Still pending is the original lawsuit filed in September, which asks that the new [...]

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Hosemann responds to NAACP regarding redistricting

Associated Press — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:40:08 +0000

JACKSON — Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has released a statement following the NAACP’s legal action regarding redistricting. Hosemann wrote: “It has always been my position the Mississippi Legislature should be able to redistrict itself and not the federal courts. The Mississippi House and Senate adopted fair redistricting plans that even received approval by the [...]

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Black supervisors ask judge to toss redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:50:42 +0000

JACKSON — The four black elected supervisors in Mississippi’s most populated county asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of improperly using race as a consideration in redrawing voting districts. The lawsuit against the black members of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors was filed Sept. 19 in U.S. District Court [...]

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Black dancers bring discrimination lawsuit against strip club

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:47:55 +0000

JACKSON — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi strip club that it says discriminated against black dancers. The lawsuit alleges that Danny’s Cabaret in Jackson forced black dancers to work less lucrative shifts than whites, subjected them to arbitrary fees and fines and excluded them from advertisements promoting [...]

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