Contemporary

Judge Carlton Reeves: Resurrecting the Nightmarish Specter of Lynchings in Mississippi

In Contemporary, Violence on 11 February 2015 with 16 comments

Late one summer night in 2011 in Jackson, Mississippi, James Craig Anderson, an African-American, was set upon in a parking lot by ten white teenagers, beaten and murdered. The gruesome killing was recorded by security cameras, and all ten teenagers, now adults, have pled guilty to various charges. In their pleas they told the court […]