FOCUS: H.B. 1020 • 2023 Elections • Voting • Fact Checks • #MSWelfare/TANF Scandal • Jackson Water • Abortion • Race & Racism
On March 9, 2023, a judge sentenced Axel Cox, a white 24-year-old man, to three-and-a-half years in federal prison after he burned a cross in his yard in the sight of his Black neighbors in December 2020.
Chaotic scenes unfolded in and around a crowded majority-Black Madison County voting precinct this morning as hundreds of voters’ vehicles filled up two parking lots and began spilling into a third down the road. Voters waited two hours to cast a ballot as the line stretched from The Mark Apartments precinct in southeast Ridgeland, a historic white-flight suburb outside Jackson, and wrapped around a shopping center down the road.
2,550 mostly Black and Hispanic voters in southeast Ridgeland, a historic white-flight suburb outside just north of Jackson, were quietly rezoned out of their racially mixed precinct this summer. They were placed, instead, into an already majority non-white one.
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