This #GivingTuesday, Fight for Mississippi’s Immigrant Communities
On August 7, 2019, Juan Gomez went to his job at a chicken processing plant outside of Carthage, Mississippi, leaving his wife and 4 childre...
November 23, 2020 In the News Story
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2020 Virtual Champions of Justice Great Mississippi Road Trip
2020 Virtual Champions of Justice Great Mississippi Road Trip Honoring Barbara and David Lipman, Stanley “Rip” Daniels, and the Curt...
October 09, 2020 In the News Story -
Curtis Flowers is a Free Man
Curtis Flowers – a Black man who has been tried an unprecedented six times for the same crime, despite a lack of evidence linking him to the...
September 04, 2020 Story
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The Mississippi Center for Justice is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys and other professionals, the Center develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide.
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Curtis Flowers to Receive $500,000 for Wrongful Imprisonment
After 23 years behind bars – much of it in solitary – and enduring six trials for the same capital murders he did not commit, Mississippi is finally helping Curtis Flowers rebuild his life. The state of Mississippi will pay Curtis Flowers $500,000 for his......
March 03, 2021 In the News -
Federal Court Awards Attorneys Fees of $165K to MCJ
In MCJ’s redistricting case that led to the election in 2019 of the first Black state senator from Mississippi Senate District 22 in the Mississippi Delta, the federal court overseeing the case awarded MCJ $165,397.50 for the work of our Impact Litigation Director Rob......
February 25, 2021 In the News Press Release -
Fair Housing Act Protections Officially Extended to LGBTQ Individuals
In 2019, Mississippi Center for Justice Housing Law Attorney William Bedwell received a call from Raciella Edgar, an African American transgendered woman of Cuban descent living in a mobile home park in Gulfport, Mississippi. The property manager had discriminated against Edgar by repeatedly telling her......
February 16, 2021 Blog In the News
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Fair Housing Act Protections Officially Extended to LGBTQ Individuals
In 2019, Mississippi Center for Justice Housing Law Attorney William Bedwell received a call from Raciella Edgar, an African American transgendered woman of Cuban descent living in a mobile home park in Gulfport, Mississippi. The property manager had discriminated against Edgar by repeatedly telling her......
February 16, 2021 Blog In the News