A Mississippi man pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime after he burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors. Axel Cox, 24, of Gulfport, admitted that on Dec. 3, 2020, he gathered supplies from his home, made them into a wooden cross and propped it up in his yard so his neighbors could see it, the Justice Department said in a news release Friday. He then doused the cross with motor oil and set it on fire. Cross-burning was used in the Jim Crow era by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups...