This story was originally published by Mississippi Today. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a person’s right to an abortion. Mississippi will likely be one of 13 states to ban the abortion procedure immediately due to a trigger law passed by legislators in 2007. “The […]
Gov. Tate Reeves announced a statewide stay-at-home order on Wednesday afternoon, making Mississippi the 34th state to do so in response to the spread of COVID-19. For weeks, Reeves resisted local and national pressures to issue an order, arguing that cases in Mississippi had not reached levels that justified effectively shutting down the state’s economy. […]
After a century of failed attempts, Congress passed legislation on Wednesday that would classify lynching as a federal hate crime. “We must pass it to correct the inactions of those before us. The inaction of others does not relieve one of the obligation to do what is right,” Rep. Bennie G. Thompson said on the […]
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