‘Back the Badge’ May Back Civilians into a Corner April 6, 2017 – Last month, Mississippi’s Republican governor signed a controversial new bill manufactured to empower state law enforcement, potentially setting the stage for new, harsher sentences for people …..
March 5, 2017 – United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are loose and swarming the nation, conducting raids and deportations under the marching orders of President Donald Trump. In Mississippi, ICE officials partnering with law officers from other …..
October 17, 2016 – Federal judges all over the nation have caught on to GOP efforts to restrict minority voting. Legislators in Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Mississippi, among other states, immediately rammed through laws imposing new voting restrictions after …..
October 17, 2016 – With a sobering new report predicting two more centuries of race-based wealth disparity for the U.S., it may be time for the nation to finally acknowledge that lingering, legal segregation is the most obvious culprit. The …..
October 17, 2016 – The nation is divided and angry, and a new Institute for Policy Studies report suggests why. It’s not just that the Great Recession of 2008 hit poor families extra hard, or that the mild recovery that …..
