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Jarrius Adams of Oxford and Taylor Turnage of Byram helped organize the 2020 BLM Sip anti-racism protest in Jackson; now they are organizing young voters to turn out to vote.
2,550 mostly Black and Hispanic voters in southeast Ridgeland, a historic white-flight suburb outside just north of Jackson, were quietly rezoned out of their racially mixed precinct this summer. They were placed, instead, into an already majority non-white one.
Trump’s tweets speak to an imagined and well-to-do stereotypical suburban resident who fears the bogeymen of poverty and crime. That combination of threats has historically had a Black or Latino face.
Calandra Davis’ work as a policy analyst at the Hope Policy Institute in Jackson focuses on topics including affordable housing, banking access and debt, issues she also encounters as an activist. She believes elections should lead to real change for those who need it most.
Privilege has always existed in the climate space just like it does everywhere else. But due to the urgency of the climate crisis, we no longer have the luxury of tolerating said privilege. Our planet requires climate action now, and it requires all of us.
The Center for Social Entrepreneurship of Jackson seeks to change the landscape of west Jackson into a more prosperous one by eliminating those challenges with a plan to help increase intergenerational wealth for black families.
White Mississippians now account for more confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths than Black Mississippians for the first time since the pandemic arrived in the state in March. Early on, the public-health crisis disproportionately affected Black Mississippians, but since early September, cases have been growing about twice as fast among white Mississippians.
Four in 10 residents was the average number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in those for-profit long-term-care facilities. One possible factor: The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration had already cited 80% of Mississippi’s nursing homes for infection-control problems before the pandemic hit.
A whistleblower says a doctor in a Georgia prison was sterilizing ICE-detained immigrant women without their permission. This is not new in the U.S. where Latina, Indigenous and Black women have long been forcibly sterilized. This eugenics was so common in Mississippi in the 1960s, in fact, that civil-rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer called it the “Mississippi Appendectomy” after it happened to her.
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