Duvalier Malone writes that frequently changing polling places during elections not only confuse, disenfranchise and further alienate Mississippi voters in marginalized communities of color, but also put the state’s democracy at risk.
Secretary of State Micheal Watson encourages all Mississippians to vote on Aug. 8, 2023, on Primary Election Day. “It’s imperative for Mississippians to remember casting a ballot in August is just as important as the November General Election,” he writes.
“We, as journalists at the Mississippi Free Press, will continue to focus on pursuing the truth and reporting the facts as we find them—not as partisans wish we would report them. That is our job,” News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.
Cassandra Welchlin, Dr. Sandra Melvin and Dr. Nakeitra Burse write that working poor Mississippians need Medicaid expansion.
“Although conversion therapy is presumably intended to alleviate gender dysphoria and social stigma of being trans, studies have found that it can prolong and intensify those issues and lead to psychological distress in adulthood,” Campbell, Tran and Mann write.
“We found that race-targeted policies were associated with a significant increase in Black students, whereas race-neutral policies didn’t affect the percentage of Black, mixed and Indigenous Brazilian students in college,” Neil Lewis Jr., Inácio Bó and Rodrigo Zeidan write.
“A bit over a week ago, Ashton (Pittman) noticed the controversy over Aldean’s shocking ‘Try That In a Small Town’ lyrics, which goes much further than glorifying gun culture or using guns for self-defense,” Donna Ladd writes.
Jackson State University English Instructor LaWanda Dickens shares her experience of viewing the “Barbie” movie this past opening weekend with her youngest daughter Natalie Dickens and her two Barbie dolls. “Our lives and stories were well-represented,” she writes.
Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable Executive Director Cassandra Welchlin spotlights Black Women’s Equal Pay Day on July 27, 2023, acknowledging the milestones made, but also writes that pay for Black women is still not equal and much more work must be done.
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