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Election officials are busily trying to recruit younger volunteers to staff the United States’ roughly 230,000 polling sites on Election Day in November. Many of the nation’s poll workers are reluctant to work during the pandemic because they are, overwhelmingly, older and at high risk of severe COVID-19 infection.
In Mississippi, Native, Black and Latino youth are underserved across the state in gifted programs at rates of two to more than 3 three times less than white and Asian students. One notable exception is equitable representation of Black youth as gifted in City schools, setting Mississippi apart from the other states in the country
Initiative 65 is backed by a Mississippi-based organization whose steering committee includes current and former legislators from both major parties, board-certified physicians, pharmacists, law enforcement officers and military veterans, among others. If there is any industry that profits from marijuana, it is our nation’s criminal justice system.  Â
Have you heard someone say that in response to conversations about intimate-partner violence? The October observation of Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a charge to all of us to better understand and support those facing this very serious problem.
As we analyze the latest data from the COVID-19 pandemic, a more complete picture on infections, hospitalizations and death rates has emerged, along with new conversations about health disparities.
A whistleblower says a doctor in a Georgia prison was sterilizing ICE-detained immigrant women without their permission. This is not new in the U.S. where Latina, Indigenous and Black women have long been forcibly sterilized. This eugenics was so common in Mississippi in the 1960s, in fact, that civil-rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer called it the “Mississippi Appendectomy” after it happened to her.
Dr. Pete Smith, a journalism professor at Mississippi State University, recalls sitting next to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a dinner in Washington, D.C.
Even before her appointment, Ruth Bader Ginsberg reshaped American law, as Dr. Jonathan Entin discusses in this MFP Voices article.
Since 2015 we have interviewed BLM leaders and organizers as well as Buddhist leaders inspired by the movement. BLM was not only a movement seeking radical political reform, but a spiritual movement seeking to heal and empower while inspiring other religious allies seeking inclusivity.
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