Georgia's Fist Remains Tightly Clenched on History of Slavery and Exploitation for Profit
Congress outlawed debt slavery in 1867, but corporations continue to successfully lobby for policies that profit off prison labor. The...
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Adam Lynch
- Mar 24
Gov. Tate Reeves’ Infrastructure Plan Follows State Strategy to Disown the City of Jackson
Gov. Tate Reeves unveiled an infrastructure plan last month that continues lawmakers’ decades-long trend of ignoring the state’s largest...
Adam Lynch
- Mar 17
New Report Shows Court Fines and Fees Contribute to Youth Delinquency
The Black Girl Times (BGX) has already covered how justice court related fines contribute to recidivism. Now a February report suggests...
Adam Lynch
- Mar 3
Bigot Bill on the Way to Eager Mississippi Governor
Reeves claims "activists" are “persuading kids they can live as a girl if they’re a boy and live as a boy if they’re a girl.” Source:...
Adam Lynch
- Mar 3
Federal Authorities Investigating White Rankin Deputies Who Shot a Victim in the Mouth
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey claims he is working with federal authorities investigating six white deputies for waterboarding and...
The Lighthouse
- Feb 1
House Bill Imposes Unelected Judges on Majority-Black City
Hinds County Judicial officers and members of Mississippi’s largest Black metropolitan area are accusing white legislators of...
Mashael Shah
- Jan 27
How Climate Change Harms Women of Color Across the Globe
The past year saw some of the most devastating climate catastrophes across the globe, from floods in Pakistan, South Sudan, Nigeria,...
Adam Lynch
- Jan 27
Black Voices in Miss. Legislature Go Silent Again, 60 Years After the Voting Rights Act
Until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Mississippi government was a race-based totalitarian regime that excluded roughly half its...
C. Dreams
- Jan 26
Georgia Continues Vicious Race Based Weed Convictions, While "Legalizing" Medicinal Marijuana
Last September, the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission ("GAMCC") unanimously approved medical marijuana licenses for Botanical...
Adam Lynch
- Jan 21
Stubborn Legislators Unlikely to Deliver More than Band-aids to Failing Hospitals
Mississippi legislators, under current Republican leadership, will likely fail to enact lasting solutions for a rash of hospital closures...
Adam Lynch
- Jan 19
Mississippi’s Parole Board is Singlehandedly Swamping State Prisons
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves’ appointment of Jeffery Belk as chairman of the State Parole Board is costing the state dearly. Belk adopted...
Adam Lynch
- Jan 14
Biden Administration Invests in Jackson Water After Decades of MS Legislative Neglect
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba announced in a Jan. 6 statement that the city of Jackson has managed to nab about $800 million in grants and...
Adam Lynch
- Jan 10
Dept. of Justice installs Powerful Third-Party Manager over Jackson’s Water System
The U.S. Dept. of Justice recently filed an interim proposal for overseeing the City of Jackson’s problematic water system. If approved...
Nicole Froio
- Dec 9, 2022
An Abolitionist Critique of Brittney Griner’s Incarceration
The Biden administration orchestrated a swap for 32-year-old American basketball player Brittney Griner this week. Griner got her...
Adam Lynch
- Dec 1, 2022
EPA Investigates if
Mississippi Withheld Critical Water Infrastructure Funds to State’s Majority-Black Capital Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves fought back...
Adam Lynch
- Nov 22, 2022
New Report Confirms Police Targeting Black, Latino Kids for Juvenile Arrests
A new report out of Massachusetts reveals the obvious: Black and Latino teens are more likely to be arrested than white teens, and their...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 25, 2022
Courts Transfer Louisiana Children to Notorious Angola Prison
A judge agreed to send two-dozen children to Louisiana’s infamous Angola Prison, despite appeals from the ACLU, federal officials and...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 10, 2022
Glaring Lack of Oversight, Contempt for Poor People, Delivers Biggest Scam in State History
Mississippi is fostering a queasy reputation for corruption, and gaping holes in its oversight and sunshine laws are making that...
Adam Lynch
- Sep 22, 2022
Union Power Growing in the Wake of Covid, Public Opinion
The U.S. has not been a union-friendly nation in the last few decades, and union membership continues to decline in some sectors....
Adam Lynch
- Aug 29, 2022
5th Circuit Upholds Jim Crow
The conservative majority of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold Jim Crow this month. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said...
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