Donna Ladd

Donna K. Ladd (born October 9, 1961) is an American investigative journalist who co-founded the <a href="/facts/Jackson_Free_Press/dHHC7WXv">Jackson Free Press</a>, a community magazine, and later, the Mississippi Free Press, an online news publication that emphasizes <a href="/facts/Solutions_journalism/FlmnYeDG">solutions journalism</a> where Ladd currently serves as editor. She is noted for highlighting the historical and continuing role of race in current events, for investigative reporting that helped convict klansman <a href="/facts/James_Ford_Seale/LGhaxLls">James Ford Seale</a> for his role in the 1964 civil rights kidnappings and deaths of <a href="/facts/Henry_Hezekiah_Dee/x8pvaA6Q">Henry Hezekiah Dee</a> and <a href="/facts/Charles_Eddie_Moore/x8pvaA6Q">Charles Eddie Moore</a>, and for her coverage of <a href="/facts/Frank_Melton/uT8jlvjl">Frank Melton</a>, the controversial mayor of <a href="/facts/Jackson%2c_Mississippi/mlWqJqUI">Jackson, Mississippi</a>.

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Donna Ladd