Jackson, MS – Elizabeth Buyan was named director of philanthropy for Mississippi Center for Justice. In this role, Elizabeth will lead the institution’s fundraising programs, including foundation giving, corporate sponsorships, signature events such as Mississippi on the Potomac and Champions of Justice, and individual giving. “We are excited to have Elizabeth join us,” says President and CEO Vangela...
JACKSON, Miss. – South Africans Dennis Appel and Christopher Boshoff came to northern Mississippi in 2019 on H-2A agricultural visas, believing they would be working on Kyle Mills’ farm in Winona. Instead of planting corn and soybeans on Mills’ farm, Mills made them work an average...
March 18, 2021 – Last week, Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the disclosure of contract monitoring reports and responses to those reports requested more than one year ago by investigative journalists at The Marshall Project. The documents concern three Mississippi prisons managed...
By Vangela M. Wade, President and CEO of Mississippi Center for Justice [caption id="" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo: Barbara Gautt, Clarion Ledger[/caption] It’s been four weeks since Jackson experienced an historic winter storm. When the weather warmed, decrepit water and sewer pipes across the city began to burst....
After 23 years behind bars – much of it in solitary – and enduring six trials for the same capital murders he did not commit, Mississippi is finally helping Curtis Flowers rebuild his life. The state of Mississippi will pay Curtis Flowers $500,000 for his...
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 McDuff...
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...
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 rules of the...
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 Mississippi by...
By Amelia McGowan, immigration campaign director / senior attorney at the Mississippi Center for Justice Over the past four years, we have seen significant attacks on the US asylum and refugee systems, to the point that they have “degenerated into little more than a pit of misery,...
