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.”
Despite being a 38% Black state, the Mississippi Senate has just 12 Black members, who represent 23% of the 52-member body.
As of Jan. 25, 2022, the U.S. congressional district map divided Mississippi into four districts, whereas the state previously had five districts.
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.
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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