The State wants to fire UM sociologist James T. Thomas for participating in the #ScholarStrike teach-in—but that’s not the only way the prof angered alums and the chancellor’s staff of late. He is also criticizing COVID-19 safety decisions.
Oak Grove High School students are fighting back against what they claim is an atmosphere of racism and indifference in a historic white flight suburb in Mississippi’s Lamar County.
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Blake Case, an advisory board member of the LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi, writes that during this session, Mississippi legislators should focus on supporting transgender and nonbinary youth with needed resources instead of “targeting these young people with harmful legislation that will threaten their mental health.”
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“In 2023, we hope to hire an anti-corruption reporter to focus on this work of interrogating the systems that allow this ugly cycle to continue.”
Then-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing recovery funds away from rebuilding housing for poor Gulf Coast residents and toward improving the state port at Gulfport. That’s vital context for $77-mllion TANF scandal, Ellen Ann Fentress writes.
In Austin, Texas, Publisher Kimberly Griffin accepted a Lion Publishers Community Engagement Award on behalf of the “(In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19 Project” team, which also includes DeAnna Tisdale Johnson, publisher of the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi’s oldest Black newspaper.
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn announced a bipartisan slate of lawmakers who will comprise his Speaker’s Commission on Life and steer the effort to craft legislation focused on pregnancy, children and families.
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