The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium kicked off the Black Girls Dream Fund, a 10-year fundraising initiative to raise $100 million to financially support the goals and ideas of southern Black girls and women in the United States.
The State wants to fire UM sociologist James T. Thomas for participating in the #ScholarStrike teach-in—but that’s not the only way the prof angered alums and the chancellor’s staff of late. He is also criticizing COVID-19 safety decisions.
Current debates around racism confirm that Confederate statues and Christopher Columbus statues, which effectively commemorate white superiority, have expired. What’s a nation to do with expired monuments?
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch dropped all charges today against Curtis Flowers, who spent almost 23 years in prison for 1996 murders he said he did not commit.
Oak Grove High School students are fighting back against what they claim is an atmosphere of racism and indifference in a historic white flight suburb in Mississippi’s Lamar County.
A red, gold and blue design featuring a magnolia at its center could be Mississippi’s new flag if voters approve it in November. After reviewing hundreds of possible options, the Mississippi Flag Commission selected the “New Magnolia” design today.
Three officers sat on Floyd, 46, one officer with his knee on his neck, for almost nine minutes while he was handcuffed and lying on his stomach, begging for breath and life. It was a horrific and traumatizing experience, one that left Michael Taylor, a senior theater major at Jackson State University, confused after he watched it. He couldn’t comprehend why the cops handled the situation in such a way, he said.
“Black Lives Matter,” the University of Southern Mississippi football team chanted as the entire group, backed by coaches and staff, marched out of Friday’s planned practice and to the front of campus to protest racial injustice. Dozens of mask-wearing fellow USM students and local residents joined them.
University of Mississippi football players marched in Oxford and others in Tallahatchie County on the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder: “We have to be able to show love even when hate is brought to us. We have to be able to create change where this is no change.”
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
125 S. Congress Street #1324
Jackson, MS 39201
info@mississippifreepress.org
tips@mississippifreepress.org
events@mississippifreepress.org
601-362-6121
The Mississippi Free Press is a project of the Mississippi Journalism and Education Group, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit journalism organization (EIN 85-1403937).
