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...
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Madison Meeks
- Mar 16
Simone Biles Redefining Black Excellence
By Madison Meeks It is no secret that Simone Biles is in a league of her own. At twenty-four years old, she already has four gymnastics...
Angela Grayson
- Mar 9
The Future of Black Women's Power in the South
March 7 marks the day Mississippi approved one-year postpartum coverage of Medicaid for low-income mothers in Mississippi. Black women...
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 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
- Dec 16, 2022
Farmacy’s Prescription: Sustainable Food Options
As we close in on the holidays, The Lighthouse caught up with Marquitrice Mangham, a woman who recently opened a grocery store, Farmacy...
Adam Lynch
- Sep 30, 2022
Struggling State Loses Only Burn Center to Covid and Boredom
The state of Mississippi is losing its only burn center at Merit Health Central in South Jackson. The JMS Burn and Reconstruction Center,...
Madison Meeks
- Mar 30, 2022
A Few More Black Women to Celebrate this Month
Photo by Oluremi Adebayo Often when people think of Black women in sports, they think of basketball, track, and maybe softball and...
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 13, 2021
Greenwashing Britain’s Clean Energy by Polluting Black Mississippi Communities
A wood pellet producing facility in Gloster, Miss, has been dumping noxious VOCs on Black neighbors for years without notice. The Drax...
Perdita Patrice
- Jun 29, 2021
Courtroom Kiki and the Dream of Self-Determination
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash In the first and second seasons of A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO, there is a recurring sketch titled,...
Adam Lynch
- Jun 21, 2021
Talking Reparations Also Means Talking Climate Preparedness
President Joe Biden recently met with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) to try to hash together a deal on financing a massive rebuild...
A. Imani Spencer
- May 25, 2021
Birthing While Black | Reclaiming Our Sovereignty
Dear Black mother-to-be, Here’s what I need you to know about birthing in today’s society¾we are at war. Like many other institutions in...
Alexis Hicks
- May 21, 2021
The Demons That Dance at Sundown
I’ll always remember the afternoon of Sunday, November 15, 2020. That’s the last “normal” conversation that I had with mama. As usual,...
Polly C. Speak
- Apr 22, 2021
COVID-19 and Spanish Flu Pandemics Both Aggravated by Machismo and Lies
Back in 1918, a previously unknown influenza crept over the world, infecting almost one-third of the planet’s human population. The world...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 18, 2020
Some Black People Leery of Vaccines, as COVID Cases Spike
Chris Montgomery, via Wikimedia Commons Mississippi retiree Brenda Cheeks knows all about the COVID-19 pandemic burning through her...
Perdita Patrice
- Jul 3, 2020
New Policies Needed to Protect Vulnerable Black Population from COVID-19
The news on COVID-19 keeps coming in, and it does not look good for many Southern states. Even low-population Mississippi logged more...
Perdita Patrice
- May 26, 2020
The Girls Are Not Alright
If your life is anything like many of us who work at The Lighthouse, whenever your phone buzzes lately, it’s one of a few things: someone...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 18, 2020
COVID-19 Makes the Case for Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi
When the Mississippi economy faltered due to the 2008 national recession, and again in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it was...
Perdita Patrice
- Mar 31, 2020
Food is Love: A Q&A with Sade Meeks, Founder of G.R.I.T.S
I’m not a foodie, but I do love good food. Growing up, the smells from the kitchens or grills of the women and men in my family made my...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 1, 2019
Standing With Those Affected by HIV/AIDS
Photo credit Adhy Savala. In the mid-2000s, long after the AIDS pandemic hit the Western world during the 1980s, life in South Africa was...
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