What We Need to Know with Sybil Wilkes: Justice for Tasia Fortune, US Open History & More

Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, delivering the headlines that shape our community and beyond. This edition covers a heartbreaking search for justice, a fight over education, global unrest, a history-making moment on the tennis court, and a name from our past worth remembering.

A Mother Demands Answers in Jackson

In Jackson, Mississippi, Christie Spivey is grieving and searching for truth after her daughter, Tasia Fortune, an African American woman, was found dead by hanging. The family has voiced deep frustration over delayed autopsy results and what they describe as slow progress from police. City leaders addressed the ongoing investigation during a recent City Council meeting, but for Spivey and her loved ones, answers cannot come soon enough. Their call for transparency echoes a familiar demand across our communities: justice that is thorough, honest, and swift.