07 Mar MCJ and Partners Wrap Up Eight-Day Trail over Legislative Redistricting

Posted at March 07, 2024 in In the News

Yesterday, 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,...

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03 Jul Federal Court Orders Mississippi’s State Legislative Maps to Be Redrawn

Posted at July 03, 2024 in In the News, Press Release, Story

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2024   CONTACT: Tara Y. Wren, Mississippi Center for Justice, twren@mscenterforjustice.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Candi Richardson, ACLU of Mississippi, comms@aclu-ms.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 252-292-6088, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org   Court finds 2022 redistricting plan unlawfully...

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24 Apr Jackson Residents Sue Public Officials, Calling H.B. 1020 a Violation of the Mississippi Constitution

Posted at April 24, 2023 in In the News, Press Release

              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2023   Contact: Cliff Johnson Phone: 662-915-6863 Email: cliff.johnson@macarthurjustice.org   Contact: Mandesha Thornton Phone: 601-352-2269 ext. 147 Email: mthornton@mscenterforjustice.org   Contact: Ella Wiley Email: media@naacpldf.org   Contact: Neely Mullen Phone: 601-354-3408 Email: comms@aclu-ms.org...

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20 Dec Civil Rights Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Over Mississippi’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps

Posted at December 20, 2022 in Press Release

Civil Rights Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Over Mississippi’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 20, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates today challenged Mississippi’s 2022 state legislative district maps for unlawfully diluting the voting strength of Black Mississippians. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU...

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25 Feb Federal Court Awards Attorneys Fees of $165K to MCJ

Posted at February 25, 2021 in In the News, Press Release

  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...

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30 Jun MS Legislature Proposes Constitutional Amendment To Repeal Discriminatory Election Scheme from 1890 Constitution

Posted at June 30, 2020 in In the News, Press Release

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 29, 2020 Contact – Robert B. McDuff, Director of the George Riley Impact Litigation Initiative, Mississippi Center for Justice, rmcduff@mscenterforjustice.org   After yesterday’s historic vote to take down the Confederate emblem as part of Mississippi’s state flag that was adopted...

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18 May What We Do

Posted at May 18, 2020

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19 Feb Home

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24 Oct MISSISSIPPI ROAD TRIP: The ancestors inside us and the precious right to vote

Posted at October 24, 2012 in In the News

Published in Shore Magazine Denise DeClue “The past is never dead,” wrote Mississippi writer William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.” I grew up in Missouri, digging up Civil War relics and arrowheads from the nearby woods and thought it was the Midwest until I came...

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