Opinion | Hidden Homicides: ‘An American Legacy of Violence’
Sean Brown responds to the Jackson Police Department’s failure to report 24 additional homicides in the capital city in 2023.
Sean Brown responds to the Jackson Police Department’s failure to report 24 additional homicides in the capital city in 2023.
Getty Israel writes on how the Congressional Black Caucus, which has a history of supporting oppressed people of color, has stood against Palestine.
The State of Mississippi has shortchanged Alcorn State University approximately $257.8 million in agricultural funds from the federal government over the last 30 years.
Mississippi’s HBCUs can empower Jackson’s Black middle class and help build a “resurgent Jackson” amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
A Black middle class should return to Jackson and build identity-affirming charter schools amidst JPS school closures, Sean Brown writes.
JPS must produce a plan that supports the scholars and families surrounding school closures, Sean Brown writes.
Columnist Leo Carney highlights how a pattern of police shootings on the Gulf Coast “negatively affects their families and the entire community as a whole.”
Calandra Davis honors Dr. Mutulu Shakur—Black Liberation Army member whom the U.S. government captured and held as a POW for over 36 years.
Brooke Floyd learned of the National Organizing Fellowship she completed this year through People’s Advocacy Institute Executive Director Rukia Lumumba, who encouraged the Jackson, Miss., native to apply.
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