Even when change is still necessary, even when injustice still continues, there can be an upward spiral, growing from past transformations into future ones.
50 years after the murder of my brother, Andrew Goodman, voter rights still threatened.
Hamer’s inclusion of sterilization in a hearing primarily organized to ensure the protection of Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers and lay the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act highlighted how both the right to vote and reproductive freedom were necessary for justice for Black women in Mississippi.
Mississippi wants to execute a 56-year-old mentally ill woman Thursday even though no one now seems to believe that she murdered the husband who had battered and abused her for years. Mississippi wants its pound of flesh. But why from Michelle Byrom?
The Jackson mayor had ambitious plans to bring "people power" and a "solidarity economy" to his city and state.
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