Lexington

And a small Mississippi town that just settled a major civil rights case with the Justice Department is being sued again over its police department.

The town is Lexington, Mississippi, and this latest lawsuit involves a 29-year-old man who says he was arrested simply for recording police officers with his cell phone.

His name is Terrence Gibson.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU of Mississippi filed the lawsuit on his behalf.

And here's an overview of what's going to be happening, our discussion this Sunday, October 18th, 2026 on the Black Headline News Talk radio show.

We will first start with that breaking news coming out of Mississippi and the U.S. Department of Justice finalized a comprehensive out-of-court settlement with the Lexington Police Department to enforce sweeping reforms following systemic civil rights violations against Black residents.

We are going to go into detail about what those violations entailed and what reforms that must happen, according to the U.S., the DOJ.

Now, the FDIC in this next story reveals a staggering decline in African-American banks.

and also the DOJ themselves as far as from the press release.

The settlement follows a scathing investigation and subsequent report by the DOJ dealing pervasive misconduct.

Key findings regarding Lexington Police Department include systemic discrimination and harassment.

Law enforcement routinely targeted Black individuals who make up roughly 76% of the rural city's population for stops, searches, and arrests.

Put on sweatpants, put on a sweat top, got coats, got back in the car, and we rode out.

Now, I don't know why I did this, but I had convinced him, John was the guy who was, who my fellow, uh, classmate, that we should stop in Lexington, Mississippi.

Now you're saying to yourself, "Why the hell is it in Lexington, Mississippi?" Two reasons why I said.

One, that's where my dad lived.

My dad, my grandma, my uncle, and my, um, both my uncles and my great aunt.

It was so funny.

When we pulled...

I still remember when we pulled in, 'cause I think I called Mom to tell her that we were in Lexington, and she was like, "And exactly why'd you stop there?" And I was telling her, I was like, "We were so exhausted." She's like, "Why didn't you just stop at a rest area?" Well, I figured...

Yeah, we're going to find out here in just a little bit.

Do you know what happened there in Lexington, Mississippi? And how far is Lexington from San Antonio, by the way?

Lexington is on my way to Jackson probably about an hour and a half south of me.

Hour and a half south.

That's about how far it is, an hour and a half south.

Well, I just want you to know in Lexington there's a rather interesting thing has happened.

It looks like there's been a settlement.

I'll tell you why.

Mason preached his first official sermon in 1894 at Preston in Faulkner County.

Expelled from the Baptist Church three years later, he kept preaching holiness in various places, including an abandoned cotton gin in Lexington, Mississippi.

The gin house became the birthplace of the Church of God in Christ.

From 1909 to 1914, roughly equal number of blacks and whites came to him for ordination.

And she's beating the boys on Food Network to boot.

Please welcome the owner at Lexing- Lexington Betty Smokehouse, Chef Dominique Leach.

Dom, hi.

Thank you for that introduction, Sarah.

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the first time I fell in love with food.

My grandmother was in town visiting from Lexington, Mississippi.

Mm.