‘Woke’ in Mississippi: Annual ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ Always a Rude Awakening
My studies of newspaper archives and primary sources, and some good learning from Dr. Manning Marable at Columbia both widened my understanding from the racism in my native South to what really happened across the country and it, well, awakened me. It also made me want to come on back home and face down, and report, demons I needed to confront as a white Mississippian.
Mississippi Bans Shackling of Pregnant Inmates, Ends Child Visitation Limits
The Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act bans Mississippi prisons from shackling pregnant women and expands visitation rights for minor children.
