AltWeeklies Wire
Coretta, Betty and Menew
How meeting Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan in a Mississippi library changed the future of one Mississippi woman.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
02-17-2006 |
Commentary
Hear Me Roarnew
Heidi Fleiss is opening the first all-male brothel in Nevada, and the other cathouse owners in the state, the owners of the regular brothels, are angry.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
12-15-2005 |
Commentary
Oh, Say Can We See?new
When Mamie Till Mobley decided to open her boy’s casket at his funeral in 1955 in Chicago, she exposed the result of an act that many thought would be the most horrible race crime imaginable.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
12-01-2005 |
Commentary
All in the Single Girl's Familynew
Ali Greggs traverses the sticky rainforest-like scape of her family’s deep-seated personality disorders and their relation to her oft-pointed-out single status.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
11-28-2005 |
Commentary
You Can Do Thatnew
Despite the mythologizing of Rosa Parks, she was human just like the rest of us. This very normal woman simply looked in the mirror and told herself, "You can do that" -- a simple act that is also necessary in today's difficult times.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
11-13-2005 |
Commentary
Born to be a Thugnew
Young people are demonized in America: It pays to hate them, disparage them, ridicule them, stereotype them, profile them, arrest them, condescend to them, use them for votes and lead the evening news with them.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-13-2005 |
Commentary
Bennett and his Black Boysnew
Yes, William Bennett -- staunch Catholic, Bush I’s drug czar, Bush II’s ideological buddy, the author of best-selling books about morals and values -- said on his national radio show last week that aborting black babies would reduce crime.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-05-2005 |
Commentary
This is My Faultnew
Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and thrust her spotlight on the abhorrent conditions of the poorest Americans, I have been pondering poverty. First, I got angry. But a month after Katrina, I’ve put aside the anger and realized where the blame really lies: It is my fault.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
09-29-2005 |
Commentary
The Storm of the Centurynew
Unlike Bill O’Reilly, this writer didn’t see looters, or rapists, or murderers in New Orleans -- just people pushed to their personal limit who were surviving, people trying to feed their babies and take care of their sick.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
The Hope Sleeps Tonightnew
The horrors have been far too many for one week not just on the Gulf Coast but in Jackson, Miss., a city that has seemed without a leader since this disaster happened.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
An Imperfect Stormnew
New Orleans is gone, and the beautiful Gulf Coast of Mississippi is destroyed. The poor were left to drown and starve and fend for themselves against insurgents. In our greatest time of need, our government simply abandoned us.
Jackson Free Press |
Scott Albert Johnson |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
Bootstrap Furynew
If you can force poor people to participate in their disenfranchisement by blaming them for it, you cripple their ability to change it.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
08-11-2005 |
Commentary
Why Not Just Turn Gay?new
One writer shares the top 10 reasons she won't "turn" gay.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
07-28-2005 |
Commentary
There's a Hole in the Skynew
The world knew we had to go to war after 9/11, but we have not yet avenged the deaths of those who perished at the World Trade Center.
Jackson Free Press |
Brenda Varner Judin |
07-21-2005 |
Commentary
Deliver Us From Evilnew
One writer examines the Edgar Ray Killen trial and what it means for Mississippi's past and future.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
07-14-2005 |
Commentary
