Change & Hope Continue in Mississippi

James Young, the new mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, knows what it was like to be harassed by the KKK. Philadelphia is the home to one of the most notorious civil rights events in US history: The assassination of three civil rights workers who were registering black people to vote back in 1964.

For the first time, this town has a black mayor. Change is a slow mo-fo, but when it comes, it is very sweet.