The True Cost of a Golden Ticket
If someone would’ve told me at the beginning of my senior year I’d choose Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College instead of following...
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Adam Lynch
- Feb 27
College Board Fights Back Against Gov. DeSantis’ Culture War
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mulls ending AP courses in Florida after the state college board slammed his attack on AP African American...
The Lighthouse
- Sep 24, 2022
The Power of Punctuation
The Power of Punctuation Toni Morrison said, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our...
Lori Sonken
- Jul 14, 2022
Black Women Superintendents Teaching Civil Rights History at National Parks
Judy Forte remembers a 1966 judge’s desegregation order forcing her and her brothers to transfer to the all-white elementary school near...
LaChassity Jackson
- May 28, 2021
HBCUs: Why they deserve more
In the midst of the 2020 election, you may have heard many of the democratic presidential candidates speak on funding Historically Black...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 8, 2020
To School and Home Again: Learning in a World of Covid
Local school districts throughout the south are determined to pull kids back into schools this fall amid a national pandemic, and some...
Perdita Patrice
- May 29, 2020
Impoverished K-12 Students Head into Next Year Missing Pivotal Building Blocks
Young students all over Mississippi and the South are celebrating their high school graduation under the shadow of COVID-19. Schools have...
Perdita Patrice
- May 11, 2020
Federal Government Pulling Protection from School Campus Sexual Assault Victims
The U.S. Department of Education, under Education Secretary Betsy Devos, is rolling back Obama-era rules to the nationwide Title IX...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 9, 2020
Lawsuit on Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era School Funding System Moves Forward
A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals did something nobody expected in this political climate: They took public...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 28, 2020
Title IX Works … Just Like They Planned
On December 16, 2019, USA Today published an investigative report on Texas football star, Tristen Wallace. It was revealed Wallace had...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 28, 2020
The Minority Legislator Lockout
Representative Philip Gunn (R). Photo courtesy of the Mississippi House of Representatives. Republican House Speaker Phillip Gunn is...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 16, 2020
Rep. Pressley Attacks Zero-Tolerance School Policies Hurting Young Minorities
Photo courtesy Joecephus Martin. United States Rep. Ayanna Pressley, (D-Mass.), recently introduced a bill to slow the school-to-prison...
Perdita Patrice
- Nov 14, 2019
The End of a Great Chapter…And the Beginning of an Exciting Journey
Jackson successfully defended her honors thesis, “El hip-hop cubano: An Agent of Social and Political Change in Cuba?,” in October and is...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 22, 2018
Under the Dome, Week 3 | Terror from the Gunnderdome
“The road out of poverty runs by the schoolhouse” – Former Mississippi Governor William Winter We could use several of Beyoncé’s most...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 26, 2017
Leilani’s Limitless Life Pt. I
Editor’s note: One of the best things about hosting an online platform dedicated to the black girl voice is hearing their voices. When we...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 12, 2017
Escaping the Box: Teaching While Black
Let me get some important identifiers out of the way: I am a Black, woman educator who makes no qualms about the importance of the...
Perdita Patrice
- Oct 23, 2017
The Best Ways to Distract Yourself from Homework
Have you ever had so many assignments to complete you decided to take a nap instead? Do you have extra tabs open for Twitter and Facebook...
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 17, 2017
Locked Away: How Black Girlhood Erasure Pushes us Toward Prison
One dreary November morning, when I was in the seventh grade, my classmates and I trekked outside for our daily break in between class...
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