Following the disclosure of settlement details by the City of Jackson, Bettersten Wade, the sister of George Robinson, has chosen to decline the proposed agreement, citing a violation of confidentiality. Robinson passed away in January 2019, just days after an altercation with three Jackson police officers who were in pursuit of a murder suspect. The…
In 1958, the innocence of childhood was shattered for two young African-American boys in Monroe, North Carolina, when they were accused of a harmless act: kissing a white girl. James Hanover Thompson, aged 9, and his friend David Simpson, aged 7, found themselves at the center of what would later be known as “The Kissing…