UM Law Student: Ridgeland Public Library Books Taught Me It Was OK to be Gay
CJ Winship (she/her) shares how Ridgeland Public Library gave her the resources she needed to reassure that she wasn’t broken just because she was gay. The representation of LGBTQ people like her in books helped CJ be at ease with just being herself.
Despite Deaths Behind Bars, Hinds County Wants Out of Consent Decree
The Hinds County Detention Center has been under a federal consent decree since 2016. Elizabeth E. Simpson, the federal court appointee tasked with monitoring the consent decree, reviewed the video footage of how Michael Richardson died and wrote to the court about it on Oct. 28, 2021, identifying this incident as the latest in a series of deaths at the jail that year. Malik Richardson, 22, said that his father unexpectedly dying in jail left a hole in his heart.
From Marty Stuart to Ida B. Wells: MAX Inducts Five Mississippians Into Hall of Fame
Sam Cooke. W. C. Handy. Marty Stuart. Alice Walker. Ida B. Wells. These five superstars in their fields—musical performance and business, writing, journalism, Black activism—are the latest Mississippians inducted into the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience Hall of Fame. They join the ranks of Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones, Sela Ward and 25 other Mississippi artists The MAX, as it is commonly known, has honored.
