Corey Burnside was a shell of his former self when he met Cedric Sturdevent at a Greenville, Miss., support group for Black gay men in
“I’ve been thinking about what happened next between us since Hodding III died on May 11, 2023, and how his choices, courage and advice both jump-started and inspired my own work in Mississippi for the last two decades,” Donna Ladd writes.
Attorney Carlos Moore announced Tuesday that the family of Aderrien Murry had filed a $5 million lawsuit against the City of Indianola, Indianola Police Chief Ronald Sampson and Officer Greg Capers. The lawsuit identifies Capers, 61, as the officer who shot Murry.
Bread and Butter Shoppe owner and grant recipient Valour Cobbins would not still be in operation had Cobbins not received grant money from Coalition to Back Black Businesses, financial assistance that went toward paying her lease.
“Democratic candidates in past elections have done very little to increase turnout in many predominantly low-turnout, high-poverty, Black-dominated precincts where most “retired” Democratic voters live,” Karen Hinton writes.
Anthony Shelvy, a social worker at Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center in Fayette, Miss., said Jefferson County has few resources to help domestic-violence victims and that the county’s crime-victim agency, which primarily focuses on domestic violence, only employs two people for the entire 527-square-mile area.
The City of Jackson reported on Thursday, Sept. 1., 2022, that more than half of the surface tanks across the city were filling as efforts are underway to fix problems at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant.
The ImmunoTek Plasma Center in South Jackson now occupies the building that the Super D drug store vacated in 1998, citing a lack of business.
Brianna McField is the founder of Brianna Enterprises, where she uses anecdotes of her life experiences to empower, educate and encourage those she encounters in everyday life.
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