Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’
Maternal deaths and disparities increase in Mississippi
A recent news conference drew attention to the health disparities faced by pregnant Black women in Mississippi.
Read MoreA White Father and Son Allegedly Tried to Kill a Black FedEx Driver. Did Cops Go Easy on Them?
These care against two white men who harassed and assaulted a FedEx driver earlier this year may not have been investigated properly.
Read MoreSTEM Is the Future. So How Do We Get More Black Kids Involved?
A grant allowed principal Alicia Conerly to engage her students with STEM, but not every Black child has that opportunity.
Read More‘Change has come’: Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue
Greenwood Mississippi is now the home of a statue dedicated to Emmett Till, a boy who was murdered near the statue’s home.
Read MoreIda B. Wells, Black journalist and suffragist, honored with new Barbie doll
By Adela Suliman, Washington Post Black American journalist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells will have her likeness transformed into a Barbie doll to honor her historic achievements. Wells, who was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862 during the Civil War, went on to break boundaries as a prominent suffragist fighting to expand…
Read More8 Suspected Lynchings Have Taken Place in Mississippi Since 2000
There is no more blatant form of racial intimidation against a Black person that one can use than that of a noose. The practice of lynching was used against enslaved Black people, but it was an especially popular form of violence against Black Americans after slavery ended. It is considered a more dated form of violence today, but a story in the Washington Post reports that the practice of lynching never truly stopped.
Jill Collen Jefferson, a lawyer and founder of Julian, a civil rights organization named after the late civil rights leader Julian Bond, has been conducting her own research into lynching in Mississippi and found that at least eight Black people have been lynched in the state since 2000.
The Great Land Robbery
The loss of millions of acres of land by black families is a historical fact and a present danger. Some federal, state and local agencies continue to make money available to white applicants while denying money to black applicants resulting in land loss.
Read MoreReopening the Emmett Till Case Is a Cynical Play
Whose justice is served by reopening the Emmett Till case?
Read MoreWitness a history of racial injustice at two new museums in Alabama and Mississippi
This article is about the anti-lynching and racial injustice museums opening across the country, most notably The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
Read MoreBlack Attorney to Fight Confederate-Themed Flag in US Supreme Court
An ordinary Mississippi citizen who is also an attorney seeks the permanent removal of a long-standing symbol of white supremacy, the Confederate flag, from the state flag of Mississippi. His case is pending review by the US Supreme Court.
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