On this day in 2022, the final part of The Backchannel published. Reread the story now:
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today April 18, 2022 Noah McRae was the kind of kid who, if you said the sky is blue, would argue it is red until he was ready to fight. Growing up in the Jackson suburbs, McRae had problems with authority and his temper. His parents divorced. He bounced from school to school, and he eventually started using drugs. But he had at least one thing going for him that other young men didn’t: His great-uncle is Phil Bryant, Mississippi’s governor from 2012 to 2020.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons [email protected] Anna Wolfe, a native of Tacoma, Wa., is an investigative reporter writing about poverty and economic justice. Before joining the staff at Mississippi Today in September of 2018, Anna worked for three years at Clarion Ledger, Mississippi’s statewide daily newspaper. She also worked as an investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity and Jackson Free Press, the capital city’s alternative newsweekly.
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