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Mississippi police await autopsy results for Black student found hanging from tree at Delta State

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police on Wednesday awaited autopsy results for a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, in a case that has ignited strong emotions in a ...
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Emmett Till’s murder: A 70-year-old wound in the Mississippi Delta

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, ...
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Tree Hanging Death at Delta State University Raises Dread of Mississippi’s Past Lynchings

In the heart of the Mississippi farmland, where cotton plantations once drove the slave economy, the recent news of a Black student found hanged from a tree on the campus of Delta State University ...
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2 Mississippi sheriffs, 12 officers charged in drug trafficking bribery scheme, officials say

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday announced indictments against 20 people, including 14 current or former Mississippi Delta law enforcement officers, that allege the officers took ...
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Mississippi police await autopsy results for Black student found hanged at Delta State

Mississippi police on Wednesday awaited autopsy results for De’Martravion “Trey” Reed, a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, in a case that has ignited strong emotions ...