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‘Model Inmate’: Father Finally Has Crack Sentence Reduced as U.S. Senate Shelves Reform Bill

Maurice Clifton, 57, spent over two decades incarcerated for aiding and abetting the sale of crack cocaine under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which treats one gram of crack cocaine as 100 grams of powdered cocaine. After he left federal prison on Jan. 10, 2020, he now advocates for the passage of the EQUAL Act, a law that will treat the two substances equally and possibly free 7,000 people.

Kayode Crown July 22, 2022

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With Pink House Gone, Group Promotes Self-Managed Abortion—With Caution

Now that Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has shut its doors permanently, an advocacy group is erecting billboards on highways around the capital city region to inform residents of the availability of telemedicine-prescribed abortion pills from doctors outside Mississippi.

Nick Judin July 21, 2022

Culture

Stickball World Series and Princess Crowning Bring Choctaw Tribal Culture to Center Stage

Stickball is a Native American sport where two teams of 20 to 30 players use sticks, named “kabocca,” to throw a small, orange ball at a pole that stands about 12 feet high. Each team defends a pole while simultaneously trying to hit the other team’s pole one hundred yards away with the game ball.

Lukas Flippo July 18, 2022

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‘Bringing Light to the Spirits’: MSU Excavates Concord Plantation in Natchez

Dr. Shawn Lambert and his team will place Interactive panels at the locations of their digs, explaining the objects found there and the purposes of the buildings that once stood at their locations.

Lukas Flippo July 14, 2022

A clinic escort holds her hands over her forehead, looking in the distance, while anti-abortion protesters with grotesque signs depicting dead fetuses standing behind her, one saying "We Are Ambassadors For Jesus Christ." Behind the protesters, a man waves a sign that says "Clinic Entrance" with an arrow pointing right

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The Last Days of The Pink House

While street preachers boomed warnings of hellfire nearby, a throng of reporters surrounded Pink House Defender Kim Gibson in the Jackson Women’s Health Clinic’s driveway on June 24, 2022. Minutes earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned rejected the clinic’s attempt to block a 15-week Mississippi abortion ban, overturning Roe v. Wade and dooming the Pink House to close.

Ashton Pittman July 13, 2022

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South Jackson Welcomes Money-for-Plasma Operation as Experts Warn About Poverty Links

The ImmunoTek Plasma Center in South Jackson now occupies the building that the Super D drug store vacated in 1998, citing a lack of business.

Kayode Crown July 8, 2022

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FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

Former FBI agent Dale Killinger was the lead investigator in the bureau’s 2004 investigation of the crime. After a screening of documentarian Keith Beauchamp’s “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” at Southern University on June 20, 2022, Killinger acknowledged that the FBI had never even investigated the lynching of Emmett Till at all prior to 2004.

Nick Judin and Donna Ladd June 22, 2022

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‘State-Sanctioned Violence’: Collins Elementary Ranks High for Paddlings Among State, National Schools

Even with the 2019 ban against implementing corporal punishment on students with disabilities, school districts in Mississippi have admitted to paddling children in these demographics with little consequence.

Tara García Mathewson June 8, 2022

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‘Recovering From Implicit Bias’: Top Health Officer Long Defended Confederacy

Dr. Daniel Edney told the Mississippi Free Press that his letters in defense of the Confederacy represented the perspective of a “young man with … very little experience of the real world, and a very limited knowledge of how others felt,” and that “over the last 20 to 25 years, God has placed me on a different path.”

Nick Judin June 2, 2022

Category: In-Depth

‘Model Inmate’: Father Finally Has Crack Sentence Reduced as U.S. Senate Shelves Reform Bill

With Pink House Gone, Group Promotes Self-Managed Abortion—With Caution

Stickball World Series and Princess Crowning Bring Choctaw Tribal Culture to Center Stage

‘Bringing Light to the Spirits’: MSU Excavates Concord Plantation in Natchez

The Last Days of The Pink House

South Jackson Welcomes Money-for-Plasma Operation as Experts Warn About Poverty Links

FBI Veterans Explain 1955 Investigation of Emmett Till That Never Was

‘State-Sanctioned Violence’: Collins Elementary Ranks High for Paddlings Among State, National Schools

‘Recovering From Implicit Bias’: Top Health Officer Long Defended Confederacy

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