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Waters and other blues icons roomed at the Riverside from the 1940s to early 1960s as they made their names in clubs throughout the South. For decades before that, the building was a hospital that served black people during segregation.

The African American victim in a Mississippi murder case was targeted because of his race, prosecutors allege -- but he was also gay, new information notes, and the teen who ran him over in a pickup truck reportedly has a history of anti-gay harassment.

The upcoming harvest season may be lost. Oysters, which thrive in salt water, are dying in large numbers because of the fresh water that poured in from spillways opened to take pressure off levees protecting cities from the rising Mississippi River.

A Mississippi corrections officer working for a private firm was fired for being gay--and the American Civil Liberties Union has brought suit on his behalf.