Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment Rallies in Jackson
The Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment attended the MDE Board of Education meeting and rallied at the Capitol to end harsh discipline.
The Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment attended the MDE Board of Education meeting and rallied at the Capitol to end harsh discipline.
The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation held a film screening and educational panel on Aug. 25 to honor the child’s legacy and to encourage social change.
“We must take action to ensure that (our children) are kept safe and protected from these horrific acts of gun violence,” Duvalier Malone writes in response to the recent mass shooting at Covenant Presbyterian Church School campus in Nashville, Tenn. “It is our responsibility as adults to make sure that our children are safe and secure and that they have the support they need to heal and move forward.”
“The Tennessee Three’s offense: Briefly disrupting a legislative session to call for an end to gun violence, days after the Covenant School shooting massacre that left three 9-year-olds and three adult staff members dead. And for this violation of decorum, Republicans insisted, must be punished,” Wendi C. Thomas writes.
“Watching racist members of the Tennessee Legislature bring all their power to silence who will now go into the history books as the #TennesseeThree is infuriating, familiar and exhilarating all at the same time,” Donna Ladd writes. “It is infuriating because this is what happens when people other than white men step up to exercise their First Amendment right to be loud and protest government decisions.”
The Crown and Glory Beauty Expo in Jackson celebrated natural hair and Black beauty while educating people about the C.R.O.W.N. Act and its potential to protect against hair discrimination.
The state-run Capitol Police would have jurisdiction over the entire capital city and would be required to wear body cameras under an amended version of Mississippi House Bill 1020 that the Mississippi Senate passed on March 7, 2023.
Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin writes that Jacksonians and lawmakers should just name the racist tendencies within the Mississippi Legislature thatHouse Bill 1020 reveals. “We know that you don’t like that Black people are running the capital city (at least not the kind of Black people you prefer), and we know you’re dead set on changing that by whatever means, legislative or otherwise, you can,” he writes.
“As exhausting as some of the news cycles can get, I’m looking forward to the work we’ll do together as a team,” Ashton Pittman writes.
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