Mississippi
NAACP: Mississippi must provide better access to broadband Internet
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 [...]
Barbour: No pardon for sisters showing no remorse
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 [...]
Lawyer: Miss. sisters will push new gov for pardon
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 [...]
How Personhood Mississippi Perverts Black History to Fight Abortion
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 [...]
Weighing Race and Hate in a Mississippi Killing
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 — [...]
