Kim L. Wiley calls on Mississippi lawmakers to fully fund the MAEP to give students and educators additional long-term support.
“ProPublica and Report for America are resourcing our newsroom in ways we couldn’t have imagined,” Kimberly Griffin writes.
“We can’t do this without you. Your support powers this vehicle of journalism that holds the powerful accountable,” Azia Wiggins writes.
“The benefits of the Child Tax Credit help children today but also set them up for a brighter future,” Dr. Carr-Melvin writes.
“Civil Rights era murderers still living among us should be hunted down in the same manner as Nazi War criminals,” Melva L. Bradford writes.
Director of Advancing Health and Black Equity for Gilead Sciences Tiffany West said Tougaloo College’s rich history as a Mississippi-based institution was one of the many reasons the foundation chose the school as a recipient for the Creating Possible Fund.
JPS students are making academic gains in Mississippi academic assessment despite the negative impacts of COVID-19, Jillian Smart writes.
The Mississippi Economic Inclusion Coalition submitted this MFP Voices column in response to State Auditor Shad White’s report, “Dads Matter: The Taxpayer Cost of Fatherlessness,” writing that “good leaders are solution-oriented and often self-assess before passing the blame onto others.” But, they write, in this case, White missed the mark.
Rhea Williams-Bishop, director of Mississippi and New Orleans programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation writes that “together, we can be the ones who create the environments and communities that build up our children, rather than tear them down.” She encourages Mississippians to come together to solve the Jackson water crisis—and then to repair the systems that led to it.
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