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JPS Students: ‘Takeover’ Could Empty Schools, Fill Jails

State of Mississippi takeover of Jackson Public Schools could be devastating to young people, a group of JPS students told reporters outside City Hall Monday.

Zion Blount, a Murrah High School senior, spoke out against the impending state takeover of …

Concluding the press conference held outside City Hall Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, the leader of …

Dante Moore a student of Jackson Public Schools spoke on how he felt if the …

At The press conference outside City Hall on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, Jackson Public Schools …

Cameron Lazard was among the eight students who attended the press conference outside City Hall …

Joseph Jiles along with other Jackson Public Schools students spoke on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, …

Cameron Lazard who was among the eight students who attended the press conference outside City …

Joseph Jiles along with other Jackson Public Schools students spoke on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, …

Civil Rights

Beyond Mississippi’s Dark Days of Judicial Injustice

On Sept. 27, Mississippi justices, lawyers and law students celebrated the state judicial branch's 200th birthday, along with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who visited Jackson for the …

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joined hundreds of lawyers and judges in Jackson …

Politics

Fighting for the Right to Vote

Mississippi state law on who gets to vote after serving time in MDOC's custody appears rather arbitrary. Twenty-two disenfranchising crimes are listed in a 2009 attorney general's opinion that clarifies …

Three Mississippians sued Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann over the state’s list of disenfranchising crimes …

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On Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, a group of eight Jackson Public Schools student advocates held …

Domestic Violence

From Trump to Weinstein: ‘This Way of Treating Women Ends Now’

Hell week for women started with Donald Trump telling employers they can cherry-pick access to birth control out of women employees' health insurance. It ended with a long line of …