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.
Saturday, May 15, 2021, between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, nearly 80 members of the JSU Class of 1970 participated in their first commencement exercise. It was held on the Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza and in conjunction with the commemoration of the 1970 mas-sacre carried out by Jackson City Police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
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.
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.
A few weeks ago, in our haste to get out an article emphasizing the importance of getting rid of the current filibuster rule, we made the mistake of saying that the John Lewis Voting Rights bill was now called the For the People bill. Let’s be clear. They are not one and the same.
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.
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.
