However, no foul play is suspected, it said. The slayings were among the most notorious of the civil rights era and were the subject of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." ...

Legendary actor Gene Hackman, who died Feb. 26 with his wife and dog at his home in New Mexico, starred in "Mississippi Burning" and other MS-related films.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 23 -- -- Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was wheeled before a judge Thursday, an 80-year-old relic of Mississippi's hate-filled past, and sentenced to 60 years ...

But I think this town has changed a tremendous amount. I think it's so easy to see the movie like "Mississippi Burning" and think, "Oh, that's the way Philadelphia is today." It's just not true.

Allan Freeman, Pioneering Movie Marketer for 'Superman,' 'Star Wars,' Dies at 88 Gailard Sartain, Actor in ‘Hee Haw' and ‘Mississippi Burning,' Dies at 81 ...

A Mississippi man was sentenced to 42 months in prison for intimidating his Black neighbors by burning a cross in their front yard, according to the Department of Justice. Axel Cox, 24, was ...

Alan Parker, the two-time Academy Award-nominated director behind more than a dozen indelible films such as “Mississippi Burning” and “Evita,” has died at the age of 76. The… ...