“The Free State of Jones” explores whiteness in the antebellum South and today, Lisa Woolfork says, in ways that resonate with current conversations about race.

JONES COUNTY, Ga. — A Jones County jury Thursday found three men guilty Of shooting a former friend in his bed. 13WMAZ has been covering this case for nearly five years when someone murdered ...

Free State of Jones brings to life one of the Civil War's most extraordinary and counterintuitive episodes, in which a Confederate deserter overthrew his former commanders and established a free ...

As others in Jones and Jasper County, staunch Confederates throughout the war, tell the tale, Newt Knight's Company was composed of "bushwhacking deserters" from the armies of the Confederate States.

Inspired by the real-life story of Confederate deserter and activist Newton Knight, the Civil War action movie “The Free State of Jones” is set in Mississippi, but most of the film was shot ...

Over the course of his exhaustive three-year research, Free State of Jones director and screenwriter Gary Ross spent time in modern-day Jones County, where Knight remains a divisive character ...

Matthew McConaughey seethes with righteous fury in “Free State of Jones,” a tale based on an intriguing, little-known chapter of Civil War history that, despite impeccable intentions, becomes ...

Eventually the Free Men of Jones County came out of the swamps and successfully held a town for the duration of the war, and Ross paints their struggle without too much glossing over.

After a big Confederate defeat in late 1862, Knight and other Jones County men deserted. ... Needless to say, Knight survives the war — even if the Free State of Jones did not.

One of the lesser-known tales of the Civil War - told in the film "Free State of Jones," opening in theaters Friday, June 24 - is similar to one that played out in Alabama, in a county that became ...

The article, written by Richard Grant, succeeds in blending the present with the past about how Jones County became known as the “Free State of Jones.” A movie has been made telling this ...

If you know where to find Adam Sindell, call the Jones County Sheriff's Office at 478-986-3489. ... Two other men were involved in what the Sheriff’s office is calling a "theft ring." ...