2015/04/15 – Organizers are calling it the largest-ever mobilization of U.S. workers seeking higher pay. That’s yet to be determined. But what began on Tuesday with several low-wage worker protests and marches in Boston and Detroit expanded nationwide on Wednesday beginning …..
2015/04/15 – Whether this past session of the Mississippi Legislature was successful depends largely on which party a lawmaker belonged to. For Democrats in a body that is majority Republican in both houses—in a state with only one Democrat in statewide …..
2015/4/2 – Mississippi NAACP Branch President Derrick Johnson commended a federal grand jury’s indictment of a University of Mississippi student for defiling a historical Civil Rights Movement landmark. “The people need to see that the wheels of justice do still turn, …..
2015/4/1-Members of the group Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan (MAFFAN) say that Nissan North American should have paid for new schools instead of the citizens of Canton. Canton voters recently passed a $33 million dollar school bond issue that …..
2015/03/27 – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP applauds the recent indictment of Bolivar County Deputy Walter Grant in the fatal shooting of Willie Bingham in 2013. Deputy Grant shot Bingham in the back of the head as he ran away from …..
