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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.”
“We can’t do this without you. Your support powers this vehicle of journalism that holds the powerful accountable,” Azia Wiggins writes.
“First, not one person on our team is fixated on being first. Getting it right is our goal,” Kimberly Griffin writes. “We aren’t sitting around decrying other journalists covering the story. That’s not helpful. It’s harmful because Mississippians deserve as much good information they can get because, Lord knows, power brokers are hiding it from us.”
The City of Biloxi approved funding for the beautification of the Bayou Auguste community. Biloxi native Demetrius Gayden completed several revitalization projects in East Biloxi.
MFP Co-founder and Publisher Kimberly Griffin reflects on takeaways from a national journalism conference in Chicago, highlighting the continual growth of diversity in media. “‘Diversity’ is an overused word, yet I can’t think of any better word to describe the rooms filled with more Black and Brown folks, more young people, and more people from the LGBTQ+ community,” she writes.
Deputy Editor Azia Wiggins writes that her work at the MFP helps mend the broken relationship between the people and media with our transparency and investigative journalism that focuses on truth and solutions—and set a higher ethical standard in journalism. And she can use the door opened to her to help other native Black Mississippians get new opportunities.
Black and Brown women go missing every day in the United States. Black and Brown women die at the hands of partners every day in the United States. Yet, we’re rarely afforded the same media attention that white women get when these tragedies strike, particularly white women who are pretty, thin and at least middle class. Perhaps you’re wondering why. I’m not.
What difference can one un-sexist man make? My colleagues and I had a hunch that the actions of individual male allies–even through simple acts such as highlighting the strengths of female colleagues or checking in on their well-being–might serve as a counterweight to the negative effects of everyday sexism. But not only that, we decided to study how that might impact men as well.
In Mississippi, Native, Black and Latino youth are underserved across the state in gifted programs at rates of two to more than 3 three times less than white and Asian students. One notable exception is equitable representation of Black youth as gifted in City schools, setting Mississippi apart from the other states in the country
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