Efforts by the majority-white Mississippi Legislature to create courts with appointed rather than elected judges and to expand patrols by state police inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson amount to “Jim Crow 2.0,” a Democratic former state lawmaker said Tuesday.
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A former Mississippi lawmaker says efforts by the majority-white state Legislature to create courts with appointed rather than elected judges and to expand patrols by state police inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson amount to “Jim Crow 2 0."
The Daily Yonder As Biden Presidency Begins, Rural Thought Leaders Look Ahead Broad commitments to rebuilding community and trust should be as much of a priority as specific policy actions, according to a group of advisors to the Rural Assembly.
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Photos of Rural Assembly Strategic Advisors, clockwise from top left, Lyndsey Gilpin, Oleta Fitzgerald, David Lipsetz, Carlton Turner, and Carol Blackmon. (Daily Yonder graphic)
As President Joe Biden takes office this week, big changes could be in store for the rural policy priorities of the U.S. federal government. In December, as the Biden transition first got underway, our team connected with a group of rural community leaders to ask them what they expect to see under the new administration.