New York Times Stephen Teague BILOXI, Miss. — IF you don’t live near the Gulf Coast, you may have the impression that the area has fully recovered from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the largest environmental disaster in American history. Sadly, that’s not the...
Jackson Free Press DeArbreya Lee Martha Bergmark stands among the state's "10 Women of Vision" as part of the Women's Fund of Mississippi's 10th anniversary celebration. She carries on the work that began for her parents in the Civil Rights Movement through the Mississippi Center for Justice. Bergmark...
Bloomberg Businessweek Paul M. Barrett Here’s a law-school exam question: A court-supervised multibillion-dollar pollution settlement leads to serious allegations of corruption. A federal judge appoints a former FBI director as “special master” to investigate. But the judge orders the defendant company to continue paying claims while the investigation...
The Star-Ledger Reilly Morse Recovery advice for N.J. from a Katrina veteran: As rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Sandy stretch into their eighth month, we on the Gulf Coast offer our support and sympathy to thousands of New Jerseyans still putting their lives back together. No part of America...
The Nation Whitney Barkley For many Americans, economic forecasts can seem a lot like Chicken Little, constantly screaming that the sky is falling. But for college students and recent graduates dependent on federal financial aid to fund their educations, that’s exactly what is happening. On July...
Huffington Post Martha Bergmark With unseemly haste following the Supreme Court's recent nullification of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Mississippi's Secretary of State has moved to enforce a new voter identification law that will suppress the vote of African Americans in my home state. Within...
The Guardian Martha Bergmark On this day, 50 years ago, I was a white teenager in Jackson,Mississippi, absorbed most of the time with the typical concerns of childhood. But I vividly remember 12 June 1963, because that night my family and I heard the news that Medgar Evers,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Roberta Avila Steps Coalition 228-229-8552 Reilly Morse Mississippi Center for Justice 228-383-3348 Diane Glauber Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 202-662-8303 Coalition: HUD Reports Confirm Port’s Jobs Failures Gulfport Community Organizations Call for New Direction (May 15 2013) Two separate reports just issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have found...
Anita Lee MDA must supply documentation or risk repaying block grant money GULFPORT -- The federal government says the Mississippi Development Authority has documented only 50 of the 1,286 direct, full-time jobs it claims at the state port, and insists MDA provide records to show all the...
Guardian Express Janet Grace Ortigas Researchers and scientists all over the world believe that an HIV vaccine to prevent HIV infection is possible. They have been creating them and are working to speed up the process. In the U.S., the NIAID at NIH enrolled over 28,000 volunteers to...
