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....
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Adam Lynch
- Aug 2, 2022
Mississippi Legislators are Sneaking Millions in Subsidies to Segregation Schools
White Mississippians have a 60-year love affair with Jim Crow-era segregation academies, and some of them are determined to make...
Adam Lynch
- Jul 1, 2022
SCOTUS Ruling Promises Problems for Mississippi’s LGBTQIA+ Youth
Jackson residents Dylan Hegwood (left) and Gee Lemonade say they’re already seeking opportunities elsewhere in anticipation of...
Dawson Johnson
- Apr 13, 2022
It’s High Time D.C. Became a State, Say Residents
D.C. residents are campaigning hard for statehood in the aftermath of Congress’ push to undermine local marijuana laws. Residents are...
The Lighthouse
- Mar 18, 2022
The legacy of Unita Blackwell lives on in Mississippi and Beyond
Mayor Unita Blackwell was Mississippi’s first Black female mayor, and she represents a generational effort by Black Mississippians to...
Adam Lynch
- Nov 22, 2021
Book Bans Trying to Silence Marginalized Voices, says Author
Book bans continued this month with a brief effort by the Goddard school district, in Wichita, Kansas, to ban a list of books including...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 21, 2021
North Carolina State Officials Admit the Obvious: People with a Mental Illness Need Special Care in
Few of us consider the long-term impact of a 6-by-8-foot room. That’s about large enough to fit a car, roughly the size of a parking...
Adam Lynch
- Oct 14, 2021
Alabama Takes a Bad Example and Makes it Worse
Southern Poverty Law Center Policy Director Brandon Jones thought he’d nailed the perfect example. On Sept. 27, Jones cited Alabama’s...
Adam Lynch
- Sep 20, 2021
It’s About Racism: Studies Suggest Why White Politicians’ Still Oppose Expanding Medicaid
White Mississippi leaders are digging their heels in on refusing to expand Medicaid in the state, despite the resulting financial fallout...
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
- Aug 30, 2021
Black Women Bein’ BOSS
Part of The Lighthouse’s celebration of its fifth birthday includes celebrating Black women, and this summer there were four glorious...
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...
Polly C. Speak
- May 10, 2021
Mamas and the Movement: How Black Women are Still Shaping the Nation
Fascist Trump voters undeniably mounted a Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation’s Capital. They came with Confederate flags and MAGA hats....
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
- Apr 2, 2021
House Resolution 1 Explained
Democratic majorities in the U.S. House already voted to approve HR1 in March, and now the bill awaits approval in the Senate, with its...
Perdita Patrice
- Mar 25, 2021
Mexican Border Crisis Revealing Who Has a Soul and Who Doesn’t
Migration law and order at the Mexican border speaks to a larger conversation of moral among American politicians. (Michał Huniewicz)...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 5, 2021
Sick and Tired: Fannie Lou Hamer & the Cost of America’s Sickness
Fannie Lou Hamer (pictured in a floral-print dress) walks along an unpaved road in 1971. She would have been about 54 years old at the...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 26, 2021
Biden/Harris Kick Off with a Wave of Executive Orders
(Saul Loeb) Black voters who came out in record numbers in November got a taste of what’s to come the very day Supreme Court Justice John...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 22, 2021
Puerto Rican Statehood More Likely Now, Potentially Altering the Senate
Alamy The U.S. could be on the verge of getting a brand-new state, complete with two new senators. And those two senators could help...
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