Because of systemic issues such as gun violence, mental health stigma, access to affordable healthcare, and others, Pastor Hosea Hines, who leads Christ Tabernacle Church in Jackson, has begun to organize ministers and pastors from all over the nation to implement spiritual transformation and social revitalization within Black communities by tackling these issues through the purview of the Black church.
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Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable’s Quarters Because We Care laundry services helped Jackson citizens during the water crisis and invested in 60 year old Black laundrymat.
In 1966, the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael, travelled to Mississippi to march, alongside Martin Luther King and others, to finish the March Against Fear started by James Meredith. When they made it to Greenwood, Carmichael gave a speech where he infamously and passionately shouted out “Black Power”, eventually galvanizing generations of Black people to fight for their rights in solidarity and self-determination. Out of this call for Black Power mobilization, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) began.
Oleta Fitzgerald has been active in the community in various roles for over 50 years. Her work organizing, campaigning, and advocating on behalf of children have enriched the lives of many from the Delta of Mississippi to the Nation’s Capitol.
On the heels of what we dis-cussed last week, it is important to chronicle the fight to end gerrymandering in Mississippi because it helps us understand the political makeup and history of the city of Jackson. A major proponent of this fight was civil rights activist, Peggy Jean Connor.
