“Democratic candidates in past elections have done very little to increase turnout in many predominantly low-turnout, high-poverty, Black-dominated precincts where most “retired” Democratic voters live,” Karen Hinton writes.
“We are fiercely independent and report beyond partisanship. We are truth-tellers,” Donna Ladd writes. “We want a transparent government regardless of who or what party is blocking the information from the public.”
“Since Parkland, school safety has been a priority for parents and policymakers, but efforts to physically fortify schools to keep intruders at bay often are detached from the reality that most school shooters are current or former students of the schools they target,” Criminologists Reidman, Densley and Peterson writes.
Blake Case, an advisory board member of the LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi, writes that during this session, Mississippi legislators should focus on supporting transgender and nonbinary youth with needed resources instead of “targeting these young people with harmful legislation that will threaten their mental health.”
Columnist Leo Carney highlights how a pattern of police shootings on the Gulf Coast “negatively affects their families and the entire community as a whole.”
I believe this ‘expansion’ is a racial assault, but if you are in the metro area, it will affect you, too, regardless of your race,” Jennifer Riley Collins writes.
“Without a free press, you won’t know about the continued attempts to disempower everyday Mississippians,” Kimberly Griffin writes.
Rep. Zakiya Summers encourages Mississippi legislators to create a fairer and smarter tax policy, not just more tax cuts for the wealthy.
Rashad Shabazz explores the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
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