The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers ...

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...

Beyond the courthouse, the federal “Goon Squad” sentencings – weeks ahead ... majority-Black greater Jackson to confront the ...

One of the Mississippi “Goon Squad” officers who are responsible for the racist attack and torture of two Black men is attempting to have his sentence reduced. In April 2024, former ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

This week, Jennifer Egan joins host Gilbert Cruz to discuss her Pulitzer-winning novel about the music industry, “A Visit From the Goon Squad ... thoughts about this episode, and about ...

THE HIGHEST RANKING MEMBER OF THE RANKIN COUNTY GOON SQUAD IS APPEALING HIS SENTENCE. BRETT MCALPIN'S ATTORNEY FILED FOR THE APPEAL IN THE FIFTH CIRCUIT U-S COURT OF APPEALS. DOCUMETNS SHOW MCALPIN'S ...

Novelist Jennifer Egan has mastered this inventiveness of fiction with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," and in her newest book, "The Candy House." In this episode ...

This investigation is separate and independent from the federal criminal civil rights prosecutions of Rankin County deputies ...