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FOCUS: H.B. 1020 • 2023 Elections • Voting • Fact Checks • #MSWelfare/TANF Scandal • Jackson Water • Abortion • Race & Racism

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Person of the Day | Myrlie Evers-Williams, ‘Civil-Rights Activist, Risk-taker, Mother, True Believer’

Medgar and Myrlie Evers both dedicated their lives to fighting, as he put it, “until every vestige of segregation and discrimination in America becomes annihilated.”

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Torsheta Jackson June 13, 2023
Jarvis Dortch leaning on a railing in the capitol
News

State District Maps ‘Dilute the Voting Strength of Black Mississippians,’ Lawsuit Alleges

Despite being a 38% Black state, the Mississippi Senate has just 12 Black members, who represent 23% of the 52-member body.

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Ashton Pittman December 23, 2022
MFP Voices

Redistricting Matters: Mississippians Could Have Fairer Representation with Newly Drawn Maps

As of Jan. 25, 2022, the U.S. congressional district map divided Mississippi into four districts, whereas the state previously had five districts.

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Meredith Coleman McGee August 11, 2022
Dr. John Gaudet stands at the podium with nurses and health workers behind him and a YES ON 76 campaign sign in front of him in support of Medicaid expansion
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Medicaid Expansion Ballot Drive Begins in Mississippi: ‘A Matter of Life And Death’

Yes On 76 organizers hope to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot in Mississippi for the November 2022 election. If voters adopted it, around 200,000 working Mississippians who cannot currently afford health insurance would become eligible for the Medicaid program.

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Ashton Pittman May 12, 2021
MFP Voices

Protesting to Get Their Due: Meredith C. Anding, Jr. (1941–2021) and the ‘Tougaloo Nine’

Mississippi civil-rights hero Meredith C. Anding, Jr. exuded  preternatural calm on the surface, but showed a fierce, almost primal determination to get what was his due: freedom and the respect that came with it. For this, Anding, who died on Jan. 8, 2021, at age 79, will be remembered down through the ages.

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M. J. O'Brien January 25, 2021

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