2015/08/27 – JACKSON, MS: As Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery dollars flowed into the state, several nonprofit organizations joined forces to prevent Mississippi’s well-established pattern of making federal programs difficult to access for low-income people. Hope Enterprise Corporation (HOPE), the Mississippi …..
2015/07/21 – Mississippi has, once again, hit the lowest rung in terms of democracy. A new report released by the Center for American Progress puts Mississippi deep in the list of failed states, filling the South, that have moved to …..
2015/07/09 – South Carolina’s governor used nine pens Thursday to sign a law that will remove the Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds and send it to a museum. Each pen, Gov. Nikki Haley said, will go to …..
2015/06/26 – The recent tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina has brought renewed attention to the divisive history of the Confederate battle flag. The unfathomable murder of the Charleston Nine has forced us to confront the Confederate flag’s true meaning. To …..
It’s been an exceptionally awful year. 2014/12/29 – The world may not actually be falling apart—but it feels like America is. From police brutality and botched executions to voter suppression and election corruption, 2014 was a terrible year for civil liberties in …..
