(RNS) — The forces that threaten freedom continually take new forms.
News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow-style policies to flourish.
The post Editor’s Note | Even Jim Crow Is ‘Colorblind’ Now Under This Supreme Court. I Am Not. appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP on Tuesday urged pushback against GOP-led redistricting efforts in Southern states via college sports, including a boycott of public universities by athletes and supporters. U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow Congressional Black Caucus members blasted a bill that sets forth a national framework for college […]
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Mississippi Republicans plan to hold a vote to redraw the state’s congressional map in a building central to the legacy of segregation.
The special legislative session is scheduled to take place on May 20 in what is now known as the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, ostensibly due to renovations in the House chamber in the newer Capitol building. But the Old Capitol was the site of Mississippi’s…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and even local school boards. The ruling, released last week in a case called Louisiana v. Callais, dismantled some […]
After the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the federal Voting Rights Act in an April 29 decision, a furious U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned what he called an “illegitimate” conservative majority on the court. “This isn’t even the Roberts Court,” Jeffries said, referring to Chief Justice John Roberts. “It’s the Trump Court.” Democrats […]
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the Supreme Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana was "bringing us back to Jim Crow."
The post Donna Brazile: Supreme Court Is ‘Bringing Us Back to Jim Crow’ appeared first on Breitbart.
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Duvalier Malone writes about the costs of low electoral turnout in Mississippi.
The post Opinion | Mississippi’s Primary Turnout and the Cost of Silence appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
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This compilation album with twenty hits by artists such as Jerry Butler, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Ray Sharpe, Marvin & Johnny, The Dubs, and The Innocents was…
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The separation of the “American Negro Exhibit” from the other US displays fit its purpose. Devoting an exhibit specifically to Black Americans suggested that they, indeed, constituted a separate society. In Du Bois’s words, the infographics made up “an honest, straightforward exhibit of a small nation of people, picturing their life and development without apology or gloss, and above all made…
"When we choose to honor a lineage," writes Rev. Ron Padrón, "we cannot cherry pick only what makes our ancestor - and by extension, us - look good. We take on the responsibility of sitting in the totality of the legacy they have passed down to us."
Continue reading Ancestor Work is an Exercise in Facing Uncomfortable Truths at The Wild Hunt.
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