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âEverybody in the south that I talk to is talking about what happened in Georgia,â said Oleta Fitzgerald, a Mississippi organizer who runs the Southern Black Womenâs Rural Initiative, which targets barriers faced by southern Black women. âItâs like weâve been electrified.â
Mobilizing voters in the south is not easy, Fitzgerald and other organizers said. Many southern states, including Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas, make it difficult to cast a ballot with strict voter ID laws and draconian restrictions on voting by mail.
White Republicans hold the levers of power in state houses and governorâs mansions. And gerrymandered electoral districts have helped entrench Republican power and Jim Crow-era laws disenfranchising people with felony convictions leave swaths of the Black voting population unable to vote.
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.
A look at how Mississippi s child support enforcement program often creates unintended effects for many of the state s families.The post For many families, Mississippi’s child support enforcement program proves nonsensical
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Editor’s note: This story is part three of a series examining Mississippi’s child support enforcement program. Read the other stories here.
Candace McNeil, an Olive Branch mother of two, said she’s received payments for as little as 25 cents through the Mississippi child support enforcement program.
The same program resulted in one Greenville father losing his driver’s license, an especially brutal punishment for someone who earns a living driving trucks.
Dowayne Charlot, who now lives in Louisiana, cycled in and out of jail for a decade after letting his child support debts pile up, eventually winding up in a modern-day Mississippi debtors prison.