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MCIR: Isolated, alone and afraid, rural domestic abuse victims endure
By MADISON HAHAMY - MISSISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Thu,09/29/22-11:58AM , 344 Reads 13,891 Statewide

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Michelle Coleman of St. Martin, Miss., still lives in the home that her husband shot her, leaving her with nerve damage and telling scars. John Fitzhugh/MCIR

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MCIR: ‘No one cared’ - Black women face disproportionate rates of abuse at the hands of their loved ones — and a lack of protection from the system meant to help them
By MADISON HAHAMY - MISSISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,09/26/22-12:58PM , 384 Reads 29,327 Statewide
Michelle Coleman’s marriage had been rocky and violent, but things seemed better when she and her husband of a decade moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2017. After her new job at a medical unit in a jail, things “got physical,” she said, and she was forced to leave with her two children.
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Alisa Archie, 58, left, and her daughter Shalanda Cook, 30, continue to mourn the loss of their daughter and sister, Anteeatta “Tee” Archie Swims, 36, who was killed by her husband, David Swims, 41 in their Oxford, Miss.,home in 2021. Timothy Ivy/MCIR

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MCIR: He admitted killing his wife and previously abused others. Why has he been free for over a year?
By MADISON HAHAMY - MISSISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,09/26/22-12:36PM , 515 Reads 22,188 Statewide
The soft, halting notes of a piano lingered in the dark room from a video as Shalanda Archie-Cook rocked her 6-year-old sniffling son to sleep. “She’s right here,” she told him, pausing to take a shuddering breath. “In your heart.”

They cried together until the video ended.
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