JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A Mississippi man has been charged with a federal hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard to threaten his Black neighbors, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.

JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi man who burned a cross ... FILE: Ku Klux Klansmen and Neo-Nazi skinheads attend a cross burning in Loxahatchee, Florida. (Photo by Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who burned ... records say. “This cross burning was an abhorrent act that used a traditional symbol of hatred and violence to stoke fear and drive ...