AltWeeklies Wire
Justice, Hope and Hurricane Katrinanew
Re-housing residents along the Mississippi coast became the most daunting problem of the post-Katrina recovery—logistically and politically speaking.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
09-11-2015 |
Housing & Development
Keep on Truckin: Meet Robert Graynew
It was not until 7:36 on the morning of Aug. 5 that anyone found out what Robert Gray looked like, much less how he wound up being the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for Mississippi governor.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-14-2015 |
Elections
Family Spokesman: Rexdale Henry's Fines Shouldn't Have Led to Deathnew
John Steele, a spokesman for the family of Rexdale Henry, who was found dead inside the Neshoba County Jail on July 14, said the family is awaiting the results of two autopsies to know more about how the 53-year-old Choctaw man died.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
07-30-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Blackness, Leisure and an American Dreamnew
Everyone was sold on the American Dream. The trouble is, when scenes like McKinney play out, it's hard to make a case that black people who bought into the dream shouldn't get every penny of their money back.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
06-12-2015 |
Race & Class
Tags: On being black
Enabling Employers to Help Disabled Peoplenew
A Mississippi advocacy group wants some state agencies to give closer consideration to people with disabilities when it comes to hiring decisions.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
01-18-2015 |
Business & Labor
James Anderson Hate Murder Fallout Continuesnew
Upon pleading guilty Dec. 12, Sarah Adelia Graves and Shelbie Brooke Richards, both of Brandon, became two of the first women convicted under a federal hate-crime law passed in 2009.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
12-19-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Southern LGBTs Get Good, Bad Newsnew
Despite new information about social and economic disparities facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the South, Mississippi continues to make slow, steady progress toward equality.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
12-19-2014 |
LGBT
The Faces of Travis Childersnew
Travis Childers, a former congressman from Booneville, hopes traditional Democratic voters and tea-party members can help him upset Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in November.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
10-24-2014 |
Elections
Domestic Violence: From #WhyIStayed to #HowILeftnew
After the video surfaced of Ray Rice's assault of his now-wife, Janay, and people on the Internet started asking questions that sounded an awful lot like victim-blaming, an author named Beverly Gooden took to Twitter to explain why she stayed with her abusive husband for more than a year.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
09-18-2014 |
The War on Women
One Night in Fergusonnew
Ferguson has drawn people from all over the country. A handful of people also reportedly flew in from overseas. I traveled to Ferguson with three activists from Jackson.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-22-2014 |
Civil Liberties
LGBT Pols Ready to Play in Statenew
With black folks playing the spoiler in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary, bucking many traditional notions about how politics work in the Magnolia State, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are making a political play of their own.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-01-2014 |
LGBT
Black is the New Black: How Blacks Changed the GOP Gamenew
In the aftermath of the Republican Senate primary, race has become the defining issue for Mississippi Republicans, trumping even issues that are typical flashpoints in conservative politics such as national defense, immigration reform, dismantling Obamacare or abortion.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
07-25-2014 |
Politics
Casinos, LGBTs Still Allied in Face of SB 2681new
MGM Resorts, which owns the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, will remain committed to workplace equality despite a Mississippi law that many say is discriminatory.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
05-22-2014 |
LGBT
Immigrants Need Affordable College, Advocates Saynew
Immigrant-rights advocates have been working to change the law to make college more affordable for Mississippi's growing immigrant population.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
03-24-2014 |
Immigration
Mississippi Prisons End Conjugal Visitsnew
Launched in the early 1900s, Mississippi’s was the first and longest-running conjugal-visit program in the nation.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
01-02-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Mississippi Prisons
