By The Admin on February 17, 2012
Better access to broadband-speed Internet is critical for the future well-being of Mississippi, according to a report released by the Center for Social Inclusion and the Mississippi NAACP.
The report shows Mississippi ranks among the lowest in the United States for accessibility and reliability of broadband service – with the least connected areas in rural and [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on January 14, 2012
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says two sisters released last year on the condition one donate a kidney to the other showed no remorse for their crime so they weren’t included among 200 people he gave a full pardon.
Jamie and Gladys Scott served nearly 16 years of their life sentences for armed robbery when they [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on January 12, 2012
Two sisters released from a Mississippi prison last year on condition that one donate a kidney to the other were saddened and disappointed they weren’t among dozens receiving full pardons from the governor, one of the women said Thursday.
As one of his last acts as governor, Haley Barbour granted more than 200 reprieves, including to [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on September 12, 2011
One of the most sickening features of the radical anti-choice movement is how it uses the meat of racial and gender justice struggles to manufacture its rhetorical sausage.
So far in 2011, they’ve cast black and Latino wombs as genocidal time bombs; they’ve twisted structural analyses of female infanticide in Asia beyond recognition; and they’ve branded [...]
Posted in Mississippi, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on August 24, 2011
New York Times
- No one disputes that James Craig Anderson, a middle-aged black family man with a quick wit and a demanding sense of style, was robbed, beaten and then run over by a group of white teenagers in a motel parking lot early one morning in June.
But as the case builds — charges against [...]
Posted in Mississippi, Race
