Changing What I Cannot Accept: My Story of Understanding Mississippi Racism
Growing up, I had heard about Mississippi. I saw the Confederate battle emblem displayed above and inside the government buildings on arrival.
‘It Makes Us Feel Human’: LGBTQ Fund Fights for a Mississippi ‘Without Alienation’
LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi founder Sammy Moon considered moving away with his partner amid a raft of anti-LGBTQ legislation, but decided to stay and use his experience in philanthropy to make it a better place. The fund envisions a Mississippi in which “all LGBTQ Mississippians will live safely, openly and without alienation”—the opposite of Moon’s own experiences growing up.
