On a summer afternoon in 2001, Jackson-born artist Felandus Thames stepped into the open atrium of the older building at the Mississippi Museum of Art,
“As an ecologically oriented individual, environmental justice has always been an area of curiosity and passion for me, and Jackson, Miss., is a pronounced example of environmental infrastructure gone wrong,” Worth Wade Wilsey writes.
Capital City Pride will hold a “Coming Home With Pride” celebration in October 2022 that welcomes LGBTQ+ Mississippians who had previously left the state.
In her 2021 book, “Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It,” Jessie Daniels, a sociology professor at Hunter College, City University of New York demythologizes her family’s own fabrication of whiteness and what it means to be considered—at least in appearance—a “nice, white lady.”
Mississippians with medical conditions that cause higher risk for COVID-19 infection and death are suing the State of Mississippi over stringent rules that block them from voting absentee.
Jes Simmons’ relationship with her transness growing up in Natchez was not only indescribable to her personally, but also to the rest of her world. Christine Jorgensen, the United States’ first widely known openly trans person, had only recently come into the public eye in 1952, and the words transgender and gender dysphoria were hardly the mots du jour they are now.
Though 19-year-old Jerome Patrick appeared dead set on his support for the Mississippi state flag in November 2000, his views changed within hours of his speech, the now 38-year-old stay-at-home dad told the Mississippi Free Press in a Skype call on June 12.
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