Costly Fees for Those on Parole Aggravate Recidivism Across the Nation
It’s harder to get parole in Mississippi now that the state parole board is quashing applications. But should you manage to get past the...
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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...
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...
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...
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
- 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 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,...
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...
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 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
- 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...
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 22, 2020
Immigrant Women, Forced Sterilization | Same Song?
A nurse at a private immigration detention center in Georgia blew the whistle on something that sounds right out of a nightmare....
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 4, 2020
Sneaky ‘Trigger Event’ Could Boot Mississippi Voters
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson was put on notice back in June during a joint meeting with the House Elections Committee,...
Perdita Patrice
- Nov 1, 2019
“Move Mississippi Forward” The Lighthouse Q&A with Zakiya Summers
After a year of campaigning, former ACLU Communications Director Zakiya Summers won the Democratic primary for Mississippi’s District 68....
Perdita Patrice
- Oct 30, 2018
Black Women In Politics, Pt. I | An Inelegant System
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a multi-part series that considers the extensive impact of Black women on politics in the United...
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