Since a new administration began this January, there have been a series of hopeful signs that regressive and harmful practices will be challenged in the name of justice. On May 25, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke as the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Never before has a Black woman led this division that guides the federal government’s commitment to civil rights for all.
Victor Patton Mason, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, was born June 14, 1956, in Jackson, Mississippi. Victor was raised by Albertine Hopkins Mason.
Public Integrity analysis shows 19% live in multigenerational households in Mississippi, increasing vulnerability to the virus.
Dr. Corinne Anderson celebrates her 80th birthday!
The federal pandemic relief bill contains a big incentive for states that haven’t expanded Medicaid. Mississippi is one of 12 states holding out on the expansion.
The Jackson Advocate's Lifestyle and Entertainment Writer, Amia Edwards, sits now to talk with two of the ladies from OWN's hit show The Belle Collective.
This ongoing series of op-eds questions how climate change will affect the world in which we live in now and in the future.
Sixty years ago, this month, many students at Jackson State College (JSC) were involved in what contemporary civil rights activists called the Jackson Movement. Not much has been written about those manifestations of the movement on Jackson State College’s campus.
