“This is truly a full-circle moment as I return to the work that first ignited my passion for racial and economic justice.” Kimberly Jones Merchant, MCJ’s New President and CEO

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Mississippi Center for Justice is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial, economic, and social justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys and other professionals, MCJ develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide.

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  • By Sean Fortenberry Guest Blog As someone who’s worked in HIV prevention and education for over seventeen years, I’ve seen firsthand how deeply stigma and misinformation impact people living with HIV (PLWH). My name is Sean Fortenberry, and I’ve dedicated much of my life to......

    14 January, 2025

  • Media Contact Tara Y. Wren, Mississippi Center for Justice, twren@mscenterforjustice.org Candi Richardson, ACLU of Mississippi, comms@aclu-ms.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 252-292-6608 lcrawford@lawyerscommitte.org   PRESS STATEMENT January 10, 2025 Attorneys representing Black Mississippi voters presented proposed maps of voting districts that......

    10 January, 2025

  • Welcome to the Mississippi Center for Justice’s (MCJ) HIV is Not a Crime Ambassador Program blog series! We are thrilled to introduce this groundbreaking initiative aimed at reshaping the conversation around HIV in Mississippi. The HIV is Not a Crime Ambassador Program is a dynamic......

    06 January, 2025

MCJ and Partners Wrap Up Eight-Day Trial
over Legislative Redistricting

The Mississippi Center for Justice and its partners completed an eight-day trial challenging the under-representation of Black voters in the redistricting plan that the Mississippi legislature adopted in 2022 to elect its members. Here is a video of MCJ’s Impact Litigation Director, Rob McDuff, speaking from outside the federal courthouse yesterday.

MCJ joined forces with the ACLU, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Morgan Lewis law firm, and attorney Carroll Rhodes to represent the Mississippi State Conference NAACP and Black voters from around the state in this challenge brought under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The team presented extensive evidence that despite the Black population growth in Mississippi over recent years, the legislature failed to increase the number of majority Black election districts even though it easily could have..

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