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Killing of George Robinson. On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi. According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times ...
10000131 [1] Added to NRHP. March 22, 2010. Castle Crest, also known as the Merrill-Sanders-Holman House, is a historic mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.. It was built for businessman I.W. Merrill in 1929–1930. [2] By 1980, it belonged to Henry Holman and his wife Sondra. [3] The house was designed in the Tudor Revival style by architect ...
Arkansas Children's has built a 233,613-square foot hospital in Springdale. Arkansas Children's Northwest will serve the 200,000 children who live in that 11-county area. The facility opened in February 2018. Wal-Mart and the Wal-Mart Foundation have invested $8 million in the project, while J.B. Hunt has given $5 million toward the construction.
Jackson State University. / 32.29611°N 90.20778°W / 32.29611; -90.20778. Jackson State University ( Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi in terms of student enrollment.
Biography. Alney Dale Danks Jr. was born on August 27, 1939, in Miami, Florida, to Alney Dale Danks Sr. and Elizabeth Ross. [2] When Danks was 3, his family moved to Alabama. [2] In 1954, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi. [2] He graduated from Murrah High School and enrolled in Millsaps College in 1957. [5]
Sandwiches. Grilled chicken sandwich, Smoked sausage sandwich of 8-ounce beef or a turkey bologna sandwich of thick-cut bologna. Wings. With a choice of eight, 14, or 20 pieces, the wings come in ...
WKXI-FM (107.5 MHz, "Kixie 107") is an urban adult contemporary music formatted radio station licensed to Magee, Mississippi and serving Jackson. The station is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Along with five other sister stations, its studios are located in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter ...
Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320. According to 2019 estimates, the population has ...
Coordinates: 32°18′8.7″N. December 2018. The Robert E. Lee Building is an office building at 239 North Lamar Street in Jackson, Mississippi. It was built as the Robert E. Lee Hotel and operated as such from 1930 to July 6, 1964, when it closed rather than admit African Americans as required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [1] As of 2017 ...
Location. Jackson, Mississippi. Coordinates. 32°17′48″N 90°12′12″W. / 32.2965351°N 90.2034219°W / 32.2965351; -90.2034219. NRHP reference No. 100001028. Mount Olive Cemetery is a historic burial ground for African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.