2015/05/26 – The deadline imposed by a local union chapter of teachers in Jackson Public Schools has come and gone, and Superintendent Cedrick Gray has said he will not meet with the group because they refuse to include other stakeholders. The …..
2015/05/26 – Two decades ago, Lani Guinier became a liberal icon when President Bill Clinton proposed—and then withdrew, under conservative pressure—her nomination to head of the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. A racially charged 1993 Wall Street Journal op-ed unfairly labeled Guinier a “quota …..
2015/5/22-The Mississippi NAACP is outraged at Gov. Phil Bryant’s latest attempt to link recent, cowardly acts of brutality against members of law enforcement with growing national frustration over police violence against unarmed individuals and general resentment of a lop-sided economic …..
Changing neighborhoods may be a class issue, but in America, that means it’s also a racial one. 2015/5/26-Ask city-dwellers to describe what, precisely, gentrification is you’ll get an array of answers. The term is a murky one, used to describe …..
2015/05/22 – Republican legislative leaders are asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to restore the original description for one of the two school funding amendments on the November ballot. In papers filed Friday, attorneys for legislative leaders say a circuit judge had …..
