“Despite the sheer hate, panic and desperation from white politicians as they attack democracy in Jackson, I choose to hear the voices of my elders and build better on the foundations they left for me,” Azia Wiggins writes.
“Many Black women were out-front organizers for civil rights,” Vicki Crawford writes. “But it is no less important to remember those who assumed less visible, but indispensable, roles behind the scenes, sustaining the movement over time.”
On March 7, 2023, Catholic Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III of Biloxi, Miss., and Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson, Miss., celebrated the March 7, 2023, passage of Senate Bill 2212, which will give new mothers 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage, with Working Together Mississippi. It awaits Gov. Tate Reeves’ signature. “We believe that access to affordable health care is a fundamental human right, one that is necessary for the flourishing of families and communities,” the bishops write.
Duvalier Malone explains that America’s political system could be on the brink of collapse if our current leaders do not come up with an adequate succession plan to properly fill future leadership positions. “Only then can we ensure that our government is truly representative of the people and that the public’s interests are being served,” he writes.
“We’re kicking off our spring fundraising campaign and the theme is … A Free Press for ALL Mississippians,” Publisher Kimberly Griffin writes. “We wanted a campaign name that focused on what your contribution means to our newsroom. Centering all Mississippians is the heart of our journalism. It’s what makes us different from all other media in the state.”
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28, 2023, regarding a multistate lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program. John Patrick Hunt, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and Celeste K. Carruthers, an economics professor at the University of Tennessee, explain what’s at stake and what clues the court has given as to how it may rule on the matter.
Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin writes that Jacksonians and lawmakers should just name the racist tendencies within the Mississippi Legislature thatHouse Bill 1020 reveals. “We know that you don’t like that Black people are running the capital city (at least not the kind of Black people you prefer), and we know you’re dead set on changing that by whatever means, legislative or otherwise, you can,” he writes.
Since 2020, a research team from the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, has seen more changes in girls, overall, including increases in depression and thoughts of suicide, Elizabeth Englander and Meghan K. McCoy writes.
“The Mississippi Legislature creates laws without input from any experts,” News Editor Ashton Pittman writes. “That held true last week, when, as Kayode Crown reported, lawmakers passed a ban on care for transgender minors without input from one transgender Mississippian or any medical professionals with expertise on the topic.”
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