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Jackson Black Pride Symposium Promotes LGBTQ+ Acceptance, Not Tolerance

Jackson Black Pride Symposium Promotes LGBTQ+ Acceptance, Not Tolerance

Shaunicy Muhammad

Mississippi Dems Plan ‘Right to Contraception’ Push in 2024 Legislative Session

Heather Harrison

‘Starkville’s Most Unique Boutique’: Dunkington Offers Acrylic-Poured Homeware

Turkey Creek Residents Fight Gulfport Military Development Project, Fearing Water Contamination

Shaunicy Muhammad

FEATURED

Fired FedEx Driver Sues Company, White Men He Alleges Shot At Him

Fired FedEx Driver Sues Company, White Men He Alleges Shot At Him

Heather HarrisonNovember 29, 2023

D’Monterrio Gibson, a former FedEx driver, has filed a $5 million lawsuit against his former employer and the two white men he alleges chased him down and shot at him while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., almost two years ago. FedEx fired Gibson in July.

MFP VOICES

Opinion | An American Girl’s Season of Rest: Time of Faith, Affirmation and Mental Work

Opinion | An American Girl’s Season of Rest: Time of Faith, Affirmation and Mental Work

Shanina Carmichael

Opinion | In the Israel-Hamas War, Children Are the Ultimate Pawns and Victims

Publisher’s Note | We’re Grateful to Have You on Our Team!

Kimberly Griffin

Opinion | I’ve Started Acknowledging the People Who Lived on This Land First. You Should, Too.

FOCUS: NEWS AND INDEPTH

Turkey Creek Residents Fight Gulfport Military Development Project, Fearing Water Contamination

Turkey Creek Residents Fight Gulfport Military Development Project, Fearing Water Contamination

Shaunicy Muhammad

State Pushes to Execute Willie Jerome Manning Before Year’s End After Key Witness Recants, Claiming Coercion

State Pushes to Execute Willie Jerome Manning Before Year’s End After Key Witness Recants, Claiming Coercion

Heather Harrison

Family Buries Dexter Wade as Al Sharpton Demands Prosecutions at Funeral

Family Buries Dexter Wade as Al Sharpton Demands Prosecutions at Funeral

Shaunicy Muhammad

Jackson SNAP Recipients Would Get Lower Water Rates Under New Proposal

Jackson SNAP Recipients Would Get Lower Water Rates Under New Proposal

Shaunicy Muhammad

CULTURE

‘Starkville’s Most Unique Boutique’: Dunkington Offers Acrylic-Poured Homeware

‘Starkville’s Most Unique Boutique’: Dunkington Offers Acrylic-Poured Homeware

Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and Southern Miss Present ‘Holiday Peppermint Pops’

Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and Southern Miss Present ‘Holiday Peppermint Pops’

‘Sounds Like Family’: Jackson Rappers Unify for Collaborative ‘Thanksgiving’ Album

‘Sounds Like Family’: Jackson Rappers Unify for Collaborative ‘Thanksgiving’ Album

FOCUS: 2023 ELECTIONS

Editor’s Note | Interrogating Mississippi’s Election Systems

Editor’s Note | Interrogating Mississippi’s Election Systems

Democrat De’Keither Stamps Flips Seat on Mississippi Public Service Commission

Democrat De’Keither Stamps Flips Seat on Mississippi Public Service Commission

Heather Harrison

Attorney General Lynn Fitch, Who Led the Dobbs Case, Wins Reelection in Mississippi With Other Statewide GOP Leaders

Attorney General Lynn Fitch, Who Led the Dobbs Case, Wins Reelection in Mississippi With Other Statewide GOP Leaders

In(Equity) and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19

MFP’s Systemic Reporting Prototype ‘BWC Project’ Wins National Award

MFP’s Systemic Reporting Prototype ‘BWC Project’ Wins National Award

One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

One Crop At A Time: School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining’

Torsheta Jackson

Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

Not Another Child: Mother Turns Grief Into Solutions for Gun Violence, Grieving Families

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

‘Nobody Ever Chose Him’: Dreams Deferred for Jackson Youth Caught in Violence Cycle

DeAnna Tisdale Johnson

TANF

Highlights: Reeves and Presley Debate Abortion, Medicaid, Welfare Scandal, Taxes

Highlights: Reeves and Presley Debate Abortion, Medicaid, Welfare Scandal, Taxes

Heather Harrison

Brett Favre Testimony Pushed Back to December, After Mississippi Elections

Brett Favre Testimony Pushed Back to December, After Mississippi Elections

Brett Favre to Give Sworn Testimony On Mississippi Welfare Scandal

Brett Favre to Give Sworn Testimony On Mississippi Welfare Scandal

ACADEMY STORIES

A space for public conversation on race in the South, including the persisting impact of private academies.

I Offered My Best to a System Not Meant For All the Others I Am by Katrina Byrd

I Never Saw the System by Ellen Morris Prewitt-Myers

It Was On the Back of Black Students by W. Ralph Eubanks

MFP Live: Ellen Ann Fentress

MISSISSIPPI RACE VIOLENCE PROJECT

Unserved Arrest Warrant For ‘Mrs. Roy Bryant’ in Till Case Uncovered in Leflore County

Unserved Arrest Warrant For ‘Mrs. Roy Bryant’ in Till Case Uncovered in Leflore County

FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

Nick Judin and Donna Ladd

Deacons for Defense Fought for Black Lives from Donnan’s Barbershop in Natchez

Deacons for Defense Fought for Black Lives from Donnan’s Barbershop in Natchez

Pastoral Scenes of a Gallant South: Lynching Victims Finally Memorialized in Oxford

Pastoral Scenes of a Gallant South: Lynching Victims Finally Memorialized in Oxford

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

KKK, White Terrorists Targeted Black Noxubee Schools, Teachers to Embed Inequality

SOLUTIONS FOR MISSISSIPPI

‘Building an Industry’: Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

‘Building an Industry’: Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

Heather Harrison

C.O.O.L. Learning: Education Programs Target Social Challenges in Mississippi

C.O.O.L. Learning: Education Programs Target Social Challenges in Mississippi

Michele D. Baker

Entrepreneurs Academy 101 Teaches Skills to Help Participants Launch Their Own Businesses

Entrepreneurs Academy 101 Teaches Skills to Help Participants Launch Their Own Businesses

Learning Garden: Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

Learning Garden: Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

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