The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

(CNN) — Bobby DeLaughter — the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case — is himself now headed to prison.
It was DeLaughter’s dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights cold [...]