Today is #GivingTuesday –a global day dedicated to giving and building awareness for organizations that help people in need. Read this story below from our client Roy for an example of how your gift to the Mississippi Center for Justice goes to fight for justice for...
Thanksgiving is an opportunity to celebrate and be grateful for all we have. Feeding the hungry and caring for the poor are central tenets of the Methodist faith and so many others. The holiday season reminds us of our obligation to our brothers and sisters...
The Mississippi Center for Justice, which joined the federal court challenge to Mississippi’s post-15 week abortion ban, praised yesterday afternoon’s decision by Judge Carlton Reeves to prohibit the ban from going into effect. “These anti-choice laws interfere with the rights of women to make their own...
The Mississippi Center for Justice created its 2018 Congressional Candidate Questionnaire to educate voters about where candidates stand on priority issues and to better understand how, if elected, candidates will work with the Center to advance racial and economic justice in our state. We asked that congressional campaigns...
So much comes to mind about the past several months- new staff members added, a new campaign launched on food security, disaster response trainings in Texas and Puerto Rico- that it can be hard to find the through-line for it all.
...[caption id="attachment_1447" align="alignright" width="441"] Caduceus scale[/caption] The Mississippi Center for Justice is celebrating the 5thyear of its medical-legal partnership in collaboration with the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the Mississippi State Department of Health and the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation. We have witnessed the positive impact this...
National HIV Testing Day is observed on June 27th. This year’s theme is “Doing it My Way, Testing for HIV”. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV today, but 1 in 7 of them...
MCJ’s Education Campaign recently represented an autistic child who wore his uncle’s jacket to school. Unbeknown to him it had some .22 caliber bullets in the pocket, but no gun. When a bullet fell out of the jacket’s pocket, the school immediately called law enforcement,...
When we attend out-of-state gatherings, it’s deeply touching to learn the many ways that our guests and supporters care about the lives of Mississippians, and how this interest intersects with their own lives and values. In late April, we were honored to be hosted by Aviva...
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for permission to impose a work requirement on two mandatory categories of Medicaid beneficiaries: parents and caretaker relatives who have incomes below 27 percent of the poverty line, and parents...