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Mississippi Free Press, you can’t help but feel a surge of can-do optimism.
In a state that has been derided for decades for racism and poverty, the headlines here reveal a story of vibrant diversity: “Mississippi Native Uses Dance as a Way to Address Equity and Access” describes a dancer, Ellice Patterson, who founded a dance company that “focuses on inclusion, equity and possibilities, rather than barriers and limitations.” Assures another headline
, “Pipeline Cyberattack: State Leadership Calls for Calm, say Gas in ‘Abundant Supply’ in Mississippi.” Declares a third, “Jackson, Baltimore Art Museums to Focus on Great Migration in Ambitious 2022 Exhibition.”
NBC Nov 26, 2018
It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many public schools found ways around the new system, NBC News reported. The issue came to light again last week when the Jackson Free-Press reported that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith a school.
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AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Jackson, Mississippi, where residents are facing two public health crises: the COVID pandemic and almost no clean drinking water for more than a month. On the pandemic front, Mississippi has become the second state in the nation to open up vaccine eligibility to all residents over age 16. Twenty percent of adults in Mississippi has received at least one dose of a vaccine. Public health experts are urging residents to keep wearing masks, even though the state’s Republican governor has lifted the statewide mask mandate, and to regularly wash their hands â something that’s been hard to do for the past month in Jackson, the state’s capital, which has gone five weeks without safe drinking water.