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,...
Radio listeners in the Mississippi Delta can tune in to Community Conversations with Mississippi Center for Justice every Tuesday at 4:30PM on 97.9 The Beat with DJ Bigg V. Join attorney Ty Pinkins and Yumekia Jones from MCJ for a discussion on steps that we...
Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn...
JACKSON, MS – Today FWD.us released a research brief that outlines the significant and sustained damage habitual sentencing laws are having on Mississippi families and communities. We All Pay: Mississippi’s Harmful Habitual Laws details how the state’s current incarceration crisis is driven by habitual laws that add years, decades,...
