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Students Relive Black History: Emancipation Day and Historical Heroes in Lowndes County

The 8th of May Emancipation Celebration is the culmination of an annual research project in Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science history teacher Chuck Yarborough’s African American history class. He gives students a list of local African Americans collected through his own investigation. Working in small groups, the students research their subjects using primary-source documents, then write an original script to be performed at the 8th of May Celebration.

Torsheta Jackson May 14, 2021

Culture

Jackson, Baltimore Art Museums to Focus on Great Migration in Ambitious Joint 2022 Exhibition

In newly commissioned works by 13 acclaimed, current African American artists with southern ties, “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration” will examine the Great Migration’s impact on America’s social and political life. Project co-curators are Mississippi Museum of Art Chief Curator Ryan Dennis, also the artistic director of MMA’s Center for Art and Public Exchange, and Baltimore Museum of Art Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Jessica Bell Brown.

Sherry Lucas May 10, 2021

Governor Reeves stands at a podium in the Mississippi coliseum with wife Elee Reeves next to him and the words "National Day of Prayer" behind him

News

The ‘End Times’ Are Here, Mississippi Elections Chief Says, Calling For Christian Leaders to Heed the Signs

Mississippi needs Christian leadership to steward the state through the coming tribulations as Armageddon draws near, Secretary of State Michael Watson, the top elections official, announced at a prayer event alongside other state leaders today.

Ashton Pittman May 6, 2021

In-Depth

Systemic Racism Built Mississippi. Gov. Reeves Says It Doesn’t Exist.

On the penultimate day of the Confederate Heritage Month, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves made a bold declaration: “There is not systemic racism in America.” The announcement, if it were true, could come as a relief to the 38% of Mississippians who are Black. But around 16% of those residents will not have the opportunity to express their gratitude to the governor in the next election because they are systematically disenfranchised due to an 1890 Jim Crow felony voting law.

Ashton Pittman April 30, 2021

MFP Voices

Opinion | Wake Up and Choose: Reflections on George Floyd and the Reconciliation of America

Since last week, the date has changed, but policing in America has not. Many organizations will continue to post compelling social-media statuses, touting justice, mourning George Floyd, chanting about small steps and accountability, but George will not applaud. He cannot. Ma’Khia Bryant will not cheer—she cannot. Daunte Wright will not celebrate—he cannot.

Sean Brown April 27, 2021

MFP Voices

Opinion | ‘To Hate Is to Lack’: Of Racism and Raw Sienna

My wife recreated the “Clark doll test” of the 1940s, with my daughter as her only participant. In the test, children,in this case my 6-year-old, are asked to answer several questions about a white doll and a Black doll. For context, the creators use their test in testimony during the historic Brown v. Board of Education battle over school integration. My baby said that the Black doll looked like her, and that the same Black doll was both bad and ugly.

Sean Brown April 22, 2021

Mississippi Old Capitol building (Jackson leadership)

In-Depth

Under the Surface, Part 3: A Water Crisis Amid A Legacy In Decline

The reaction to integration, which included white Jackson families immediately pulling 5,000 of their children out of local schools, was but one piece of the water-infrastructure puzzle. Another came in 1972, an unintended consequence of necessary environmental reform. That year, the Water Pollution Control Act steamrolled through a veto from President Richard Nixon. Few took notice.

Nick Judin April 21, 2021

MFP Voices

In Mississippi, Research Shows Economic and Racial Justice Begins with Affordable Housing

Across Mississippi, more than 41 percent of all renters are cost-burdened, defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as paying more than 30 percent of household income toward housing costs and, as a result, having “difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation and medical care.” More than one out of every five renter households in Mississippi is extremely cost-burdened, defined as paying more than 50 percent of household income toward housing costs.

Hallet DeMouy, Dr. Becky Marchiel and Dr. James M. Thomas April 20, 2021

News

Mississippi Elections Chief: Professors Teach ‘College Students To Hate Our Country’

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson says he may be a victim of “a hatchet job” after the Mississippi Free Press reported on his warnings against registering “uninformed” and “woke college students” to vote.

Ashton Pittman April 16, 2021

Students Relive Black History: Emancipation Day and Historical Heroes in Lowndes County

Jackson, Baltimore Art Museums to Focus on Great Migration in Ambitious Joint 2022 Exhibition

The ‘End Times’ Are Here, Mississippi Elections Chief Says, Calling For Christian Leaders to Heed the Signs

Systemic Racism Built Mississippi. Gov. Reeves Says It Doesn’t Exist.

Opinion | ‘To Hate Is to Lack’: Of Racism and Raw Sienna

Under the Surface, Part 3: A Water Crisis Amid A Legacy In Decline

Mississippi Elections Chief: Professors Teach ‘College Students To Hate Our Country’

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