Clarion Ledger Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz GRENADA – Cody Beck was 12-years -old when he was handcuffed in front of several classmates and put in the back of a police car outside of Grenada Middle School. Cody had lost his temper in an argument with another...
Clarion Ledger Emily Le Coz, Jerry Mitchell One in four white males born in Mississippi will go to college. One in three of their black male counterparts will go, instead, to prison. Both will get an education. For $18,385 a year — which includes tuition, fees, books, room...
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Bobby Harrison JACKSON – It may be nothing more than tilting at windmills, but a coalition announced recently a new effort to get the Legislature to expand Medicaid in Mississippi. The MS Left Me Out coalition, which includes the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, Center...
Clarion Ledger Jerry Mitchell The Mississippi Center for Justice is distributing copies of a new graphic novel on the life of Congressman John Lewis to 4,000 students on the Coast, Delta and the capital city. The deed coincides with Lewis delivering the keynote on Oct. 16 at the...
Washington Post Reid Wilson The nation’s poverty rate dropped over the last year for the first time since 2006, according to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. But the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line remains at record levels, and in most states the...
National Memo Teresa Wiltz, Stateline.org New Yorker Deadra Malloy was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, but she remained healthy for so long she wasn’t completely convinced she was positive. When she finally started getting sick in 2006, she decided to embrace her “ancestral roots” and accepted a...
CNN.com Whitney Barkley Editor's note: Whitney Barkley serves as staff attorney at the Mississippi Center for Justice, where her work focuses on monitoring for-profit colleges. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. (CNN) -- There are promising signs that the Department of Education...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sid Scott, Mississippi Center for Justice, 769-230-2841, sscott@mscenterforjustice.org JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Center for Justice issued the following statement in support of the drive by Better Schools, Better Jobs to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot requiring full funding of our public...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sid Scott, Mississippi Center for Justice, 769-230-2841, sscott@mscenterforjustice.org JACKSON, Miss. — As Mississippi observes the ninth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) reports that repairs, reconstruction, or other direct housing assistance has been performed by the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA)...
Washington Times Emily Wagster Pettus JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi children would not lose welfare if a parent’s benefits are cut off because of positive tests for illegal drugs, according to rules set by the state Department of Human Services. The state’s welfare drug-testing law was supposed to...
