Four Mississippians challenge obscure law, dating back to the Reconstruction Era, meant to keep Black Mississippians from being elected in certain races. Why? For the first time in almost 150 yrs, a Black candidate could win a statewide elected position.
yahoo.com/huffpost/missi… Jennifer Riley-Collins, a Black woman and Democrat, is running for Attorney General. The law being challenged requires candidates for statewide office to win not just a majority of the vote but also a majority of the 122 districts in the state House.

On October 24, 2018, shots rang out at a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown, KY, killing two people---Maurice E. Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones. While they weren't the initial intended targets of Gregory A. Bush, 51, a White man, they fit the description well enough to suffice. That description was that they were Black---like the members of First Baptist Church, a predominantly Black church nearby, where Bush initially attempted to enter, but failed.