“I cover the criminal justice and incarceration beat, and hardly anything riles me more than seeing people who might be in jail unjustly,” Kayode Crown writes. “Every colleague at the Mississippi Free Press, without exception, brings that kind of passion to our job. For us, it is more than a job.”
Shirley Weber, the first Black woman to be elected as secretary of state in California, is currently arguing against the state’s recently formed reparations task force’s qualifications for eligibility. Like Sec. Weber, Leo Carney believes reparations should be lineage-based and exclusively reserved for descendants of chattel slavery across the nation.
“Justice is supposed to be ‘blind.’ But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring that debate.”
“We must learn to celebrate the many contributions women make to our culture and communities and empower more of them to make history of their own,” Latisha Holmes writes. “Our state needs women entrepreneurs to lift up our communities and prepare future generations for success. For women looking to achieve their inner greatness in business, here are five pieces of advice for setting yourself up for success.”
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann has ended my Senate career by using gerrymandering to erase a Republican seat. He silenced a conservative Republican woman.
“It’s one of the most fabulous times of the year! MFP’s spring fundraising campaign launched this past weekend with the theme, ‘Solutions for Mississippi.’ I can’t stress this enough,” Kimberly Griffin writes. “No gift is too small. Also, no gift is too big, so don’t let that stop you. Please give what you can to kick off this critical campaign.”
Dr. Brian LaPierre, history professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, writes about the history of hooliganism in Russia. The term, he writes, has been weaponized to “demonize its domestic and international critics,” including Russian protesters against the war.
College presidents between 1948 to 1968 had to deal with different segments of society that were at complete odds with one another.
On the one hand, they oversaw schools where students were increasingly protesting segregation. But they also had to deal with segregationist politicians who controlled state funding for their institutions.
To hear Roscoe Barnes, III discuss what he and others are learning about “the full story of Natchez” with Donna Ladd and Kimberly Griffin, tune in to MFP Live this Thursday, March 31, at 6 p.m. on Facebook or YouTube.
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