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‘An Agenda to Bring Light’: Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign Wants ‘Third Reconstruction’

The Poor People’s Campaign’s “Third Reconstruction” resolution highlights what it calls a congressional failure to elevate the poor through social programs, voting-rights expansion and the elimination of systemic racism. It details suggested solutions for each of these problems, including an increase in the long-stagnant federal minimum wage, provisions to expand insurance coverage, a large-scale reduction of student debt and prison reform.

Taylor McKay Hathorn June 18, 2021

Culture

Rooted in Unity and Defiance, Operation Shoestring Innovates to Serve Children During Pandemic

The Shoestring team not only worried for themselves and their own families as the pandemic ascended, but for the children of high-poverty Georgetown and MidCity neighborhoods in Jackson where the organization has been providing support for 53 years. Its goals are to ensure access to education, health and self-sufficiency services for Jackson Public Schools students in grades pre-K through 12.

Torsheta Jackson June 10, 2021

Culture

Amid Apology and Regret for Police Murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 Finally Marches

Tragedy marred the first attempt to have a long-delayed 1970 Jackson State graduation, and the pandemic ruined the second attempt scheduled for the 50th anniversary in 2020. Graduates finally got to march in 2021, honoring might have been for Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, killed by police.

Aliyah Veal May 25, 2021

Culture

Delaware Native Receives Full Ride to Study Writing in Mississippi through Angie Thomas Scholarship

After completing this year’s application, Andrea Foreman said she wasn’t confident that she would win, but she felt that she’d at least get second or third place. She submitted two books, poetry and an essay for the application compared to the one piece of writing submitted the year prior. “In the back of my head, I was kinda anxious because I really needed the scholarship, and I needed to win,” she expressed.

Aliyah Veal May 21, 2021

Culture

Students Relive Black History: Emancipation Day and Historical Heroes in Lowndes County

The 8th of May Emancipation Celebration is the culmination of an annual research project in Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science history teacher Chuck Yarborough’s African American history class. He gives students a list of local African Americans collected through his own investigation. Working in small groups, the students research their subjects using primary-source documents, then write an original script to be performed at the 8th of May Celebration.

Torsheta Jackson May 14, 2021

Culture

‘Stand Up, Speak Up’: Jacksonians Gather to Fight Back Against Gun Violence

“We had a village. We were taking care of our own. But when crack came, our entire way of life changed, and we are still dealing with the aftermath of the crack cocaine epidemic,” Meredith McGee says at the “Stand Up Speak Up: Rally 4 Peace” she organized in Jackson on May 6.

Aliyah Veal May 13, 2021

Culture

Mississippi Native Uses Dance as a Way to Address Equity and Access

When Ellice Patterson didn’t find dance company doors that opened to her, she created new ones that did. They were also wide enough to welcome a broad range of others—”like me and not like me,” she says—committed to sharing stories through movement. Her innovative Abilities Dance Boston focuses on inclusion, equity and possibilities, rather than barriers and limitations.

Sherry Lucas May 12, 2021

Culture

Jackson, Baltimore Art Museums to Focus on Great Migration in Ambitious Joint 2022 Exhibition

In newly commissioned works by 13 acclaimed, current African American artists with southern ties, “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration” will examine the Great Migration’s impact on America’s social and political life. Project co-curators are Mississippi Museum of Art Chief Curator Ryan Dennis, also the artistic director of MMA’s Center for Art and Public Exchange, and Baltimore Museum of Art Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Jessica Bell Brown.

Sherry Lucas May 10, 2021

Culture

‘Stepping Into the Sweet Unknown’: Black Producer Brought Bruce Willis, But Wants to Do More for Capital City

“I felt like if I went to Jackson, I could possibly build a team, and we can actually make some amazing things in Jackson, Mississippi, that would be world renowned. And I felt like once it got going, I would be seen as a big fish in a small pond and be one of the first people sought after as opposed to going places where it’s already built,” Curtis Nichouls said. So, he moved to back Jackson nine years ago and recently started a production company called Sweet Unknown South Studios.

Aliyah Veal May 7, 2021

Category: Culture

‘An Agenda to Bring Light’: Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign Wants ‘Third Reconstruction’

Rooted in Unity and Defiance, Operation Shoestring Innovates to Serve Children During Pandemic

Amid Apology and Regret for Police Murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 Finally Marches

Delaware Native Receives Full Ride to Study Writing in Mississippi through Angie Thomas Scholarship

Students Relive Black History: Emancipation Day and Historical Heroes in Lowndes County

‘Stand Up, Speak Up’: Jacksonians Gather to Fight Back Against Gun Violence

Mississippi Native Uses Dance as a Way to Address Equity and Access

Jackson, Baltimore Art Museums to Focus on Great Migration in Ambitious Joint 2022 Exhibition

‘Stepping Into the Sweet Unknown’: Black Producer Brought Bruce Willis, But Wants to Do More for Capital City

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