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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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 -
HB 1029 Allows Mississippi’s IHL Board to Create New Questionable Student Debt Product
The current language may allow private companies to take a cut of students’ future income for an undetermined amount of time and without protections against unfair lending practices. Overview HB 1029 authorizes the Board of Institution for Higher Learning (IHL) to set the......
February 09, 2021 In the News -
MCJ Receives Grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Advance Racial and Economic Justice in Mississippi
Mississippi Center for Justice Receives Grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Advance Racial and Economic Justice in Mississippi Jackson, MS – Mississippi Center for Justice received a 3-year, $1.3 million grant to continue its mission to strengthen social, racial, and economic justice in......
February 05, 2021 In the News Press Release
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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