Outgoing Mississippi governor says state faces ‘1,000 years of darkness’ if Black man elected by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire senior correspondent • February 28, 2020 Fifty-two years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 55 years after Jim Crow, Mississippi is burning again. Phil Bryant, the now-former governor of Mississippi (a state that was one of the flashpoints of the civil rights…Read more →