Faith Hill Urges Mississippi Legislature To Change The State Flag

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Quinn Colson novels by Ace Atkins are being developed as a TV series at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively.In the books, Colson is a former Army Ranger who returns to his home in rural northeast Mississippi.

Viola Davis has said there is a part of her that feels she betrayed herself by starring in The Help and added that the film was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism”.

JAY-Z, Yo Gotti, and Team ROC have recently filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 227 inmates of a Mississippi prison over living poor conditions and new concerns over the spread of the coronavirus in the institution's facilities, according to Billboard. The lawsuit is against the state's Department of Corrections Commissioner Nathan Burl Cain and the prison's healthcare provider Centurion.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThat’s a wrap on Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, which saw Oscar Isaac and co recently return to film the last few remaining days on the movie after a virus-related delay.Deadline was the first to tell you that the pic was heading back on set this month after being forced to shutdown back in March when a cast member tested positive for the virus just five days away from the end of shooting.Director Schrader has now taken to his Facebook page to confirm

Jay-Z, Yo Gotti and Team ROC have filed a class-action lawsuit against on behalf of 227 Mississippi inmates against the state's new Department of Corrections Commissioner Nathan Burl Cain and Centurion (the healthcare provider for all Mississippi prisons) in an effort to address the dire conditions for prisoners in lockdown during the pandemic.According to a copy of a sworn COVID-19 questionnaire filled out by some Parchman prisoners provided to Billboard by a spokesperson for Team ROC, the men

Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against a Mississippi jail over “dire” living conditions.The rapper has teamed up with Yo Gotti, and Team ROC on behalf of 227 inmates at Parchman prison.The lawsuit calls for the Department of Corrections Commissioner Nathan Burl Cain to address allegedly subpar living conditions and a lack of COVID-19 testing protocol including a lack of social distancing and PPE at the penitentiary, reports Pitchfork.“The situation in Parchman is dire,” Yo Gotti said.

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Emma Sanders was a Mississippi civil rights and voting rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated delegations at the Democratic National Convention.Sanders became involved in civil rights activism in the early 1960s, when her son was participating in a campaign to end segregation in restaurants and churches. A concerned parent, she wanted to make sure her son was safe, and then she found inspiration to join the fight.

VOLO, Ill. -- A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle.

Stevie Wonder sang of a young man from "Hard Time, Mississippi," born into a nearly inescapable poverty where employers "don't use colored people."Before the album version of "Living for the City" ends, the protagonist unwittingly steps into the middle of a crime, gets arrested and jailed for 10 years, the prison guard dismissing him with the N-word as he shoves him into the cell.In 2019, Mickey Guyton delivered her own version of that story by writing "Black Like Me." She wasn't referencing

A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazzard television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle. Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers are being taken down across the country, NASCAR has banned the flag from its races and the Confederate emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAs a reckoning wave of civic and social awareness hits the country and statues of Confederate figures in history topple, the use of the Confederate flag is finally being questioned and we are starting to see less and less of it.

Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle. Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers are being taken down across the country, NASCAR has banned the flag from its races and the Confederate emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Christian Garrison, an author and filmmaker who displayed an unfiltered slice of 1960s Mississippi hill country life in a short film about influential blues guitarist Fred McDowell, has died.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams is among those calling for the Mississippi state flag to be changed because it contains the Confederate battle emblem.Mississippi is the last state in the US whose flag features the emblem.

Faith Hill is urging Mississippi to update its flag. The 52-year-old singer took to Twitter on Thursday to ask the legislature from her home state to change its flag amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.

Earlier this month, NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its racing events due to its controversial origins, while protesters have been calling for the removal of Confederate statues.