MCJ has received a $1.5M grant from the Hilton Equity Fund to be put towards operational support. “MCJ fights for the most vulnerable Mississippians. Our work is testament to our conviction. Fighting difficult battles and overcoming insurmountable odds is what we do in Mississippi," said Vangela...
Mississippi Center for Justice is among the 204 signatories on a letter to President Biden, Vice-President Harris, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken reinforcing their initial request for temporary protected status (TPS) or deferred enforced departures (DED) for Cameroon. As explained in...
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Biden Administration announced an important shift in immigration enforcement policy—that instead of focusing on large workplace enforcement raids against immigrant workers, it would instead shift its focus to investigating and punishing exploitative employers. We applaud the Biden Administration’s decision...
The National Bar Association has announced that two of our very own – MCJ board member, Mike Espy, and MCJ Impact Litigation Initiative Director, Rob McDuff – will be honored with the Wiley Branton Award at the National Bar Association’s upcoming Wiley Branton Symposium 2021. The...
Just one month after a devastating earthquake that resulted in the deaths of over 2,200 Haitians, injured 12,000 people, damaged or destroyed 120,000 homes and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the Biden administration is sending plane full of families to Haiti under Title 42,...
September 13, 2021 – Mississippi Center for Justice and The Center Reproductive Rights have filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic in the crucial case that will determine whether Roe v. Wade survives and whether women...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 CONTACT: Patrick Taylor, ptaylor@mscenterforjustice.org The case is just one example of Southern farm owners illegally using the H-2A visa program to deny Americans work and exploit Black labor SUNFLOWER, Miss. – On Wednesday, six Black farmworkers from Mississippi sued Pitts Farms Partnership...
The landmark lawsuit was brought on behalf of Flowers by the Mississippi Center for Justice and the Hogan Lovells law firm September 3, 2021 – Today, the Mississippi Center for Justice and Hogan Lovells filed a federal court lawsuit against District Attorney Doug Evans and three...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2021 Contact: Patrick Taylor, ptaylor@mscenterforjustice.org Mississippi, which has the most abusive eviction laws in the entire nation, will be hit particularly hard Jackson, MS - Today, the Supreme Court struck down the eviction moratorium. Vangela M. Wade, the president and CEO of the Mississippi...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2021 Contact: MCJ Communications Coordinator Patrick Taylor, ptaylor@mscenterforjustice.org Jackson, MS - Vangela M. Wade, president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Justice, issued the following statement in response to the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan. “We have all seen the harrowing scenes of Afghans...
