Earlier this month, journalists told the family Jonathan David Hankins’ body had been buried in a pauper’s cemetery in Hinds County, Mississippi, in August 2022. Now, Gretchen Hankins is ...

Hinds County Circuit Court Senior Judge Winston Kidd remembers the “Whites only” signs and segregated waiting rooms from his childhood in Decatur, Mississippi. He was born there in 1964, the year ...

Why did heavily Black Hinds County, Mississippi’s largest, run out of ... especially in a state where civil rights leaders were beaten or killed in the 1960s and earlier to secure voting ...

The longtime elected coroner in Hinds County, Mississippi, who faced withering criticism last year for burying men in pauper's graves without notifying their families, is stepping down early ...

By Ryan Young and Pamela Kirkland, CNN (CNN) — Gretchen Hankins says she waited a year and seven months to find out what had happened to her missing son – only to learn he had died and already ...

A 3rd Mississippi family claims they weren’t notified their son was buried in Hinds County pauper’s cemetery By Ryan Young and Pamela Kirkland , CNN 3 minute read ...

Earlier this month, journalists told the family Jonathan David Hankins’ body had been buried in a pauper’s cemetery in Hinds County, Mississippi, in August 2022. Now, Gretchen Hankins is ...