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Mississippi Repeals State Song Honoring Racist Ex-Governor Ross Barnett
Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill replacing a Ross Barnett-inspired state song with Steve Azar’s “One Mississippi.”
April 19, 2022
MFP Contributor
Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill replacing a Ross Barnett-inspired state song with Steve Azar’s “One Mississippi.”
Mississippi may be less likely to wrongly remove naturalized immigrants from the voting rolls under a new bill Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law today.
For the third year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is declaring the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month, keeping a tradition alive that his predecessors began 29 years ago.
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman in history to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, but both of Mississippi’s U.S. senators, Republicans Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, voted no.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed an income-tax cut into law that will eliminate $524 million from state revenues.
Mississippi’s two U.S. senators, Republicans Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, say they will not vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
Mississippi’s public-school teachers will receive an average $5,140 pay raise this year, and assistant teachers will enjoy a $2,000 pay bump this year after Gov. Tate Reeves signed the START Act into law.
On Thursday, the Mississippi Legislature sent the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act to Gov. Tate Reeves’ desk, potentially paving the way for the Magnolia State to end its distinction as the only state without such a law. But the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, a leading group that has lobbied for legislation guaranteeing equal pay for women for years, was not celebrating.
On Tuesday, 124 years after Ida B. Wells-Barnett first visited the White House to campaign for a federal antilynching law, her efforts finally paid off as her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster, stood next to President Joe Biden while he signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law.
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