A 29-year-old Black woman was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant west Jackson home. Nearly a week later, authorities have released no cause of death, no manner of death, and no incident report.
A survey of more than 1,600 registered Black men ages 18–45 in six battleground states finds they overwhelmingly value voting — but a quarter are not yet committed to casting a ballot in the midterms, and no one appears to track what campaigns actually spend to reach them.
Heirs’ property — land passed down without a will — is the leading cause of involuntary Black land loss, putting an estimated 3.5 million acres worth more than $28 billion at risk across the South. Here is how the mechanism works, and what remedies exist.
