Dossier
racial history
Coverage of racial history in the Nexus archive.
- A July 4 boat trip, an 18-year-old’s death and a family’s search for answers in the Deep South
18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells died after a July 4 boat trip on an uninhabited Mississippi island. His family disputes official accounts of his death and has commissioned an independent autopsy and cellphone data recovery. They seek transparency amid racial tensions and distrust in local law enforcement.