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“It’s fine that Vance is growing. We have to grow,” Lashondia Wright said at the Vance Town Council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 25. “Now we just need to catch up to the traffic. We’re trying to be proactive and prevent what will happen if we don’t nip it in the bud,” Wright said. “We don’t want anybody’s life lost because we didn’t say anything.”
363 2 minutes read This summer, a group of Black organizers in Holmes County reconstituted the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the historic Party of Fannie Lou Hamer which sought to challenge the stranglehold of racist Democrats in Mississippi. Cardell Wright, the chairman of the new MFDP, and Black Lives Matter organizers teamed up on Feb. 1 to protest the Confederate monument that sits outside the courthouse in Lexington, Mississippi. Wright and others also took the opportunity to speak out against Mississippi’s new anti-protest laws. He said, “First amendment rights, they’...
Went to the floor, and he called on democrats to come together and work with republicans. listen to this. >> now we're trying to come to an agreement on the budget and on the farm bill. amongstst other issues that are in conference, chairman wright and chairman lucas have made good faith efforts. when will think learn to say yes to common ground? >> common ground, say yes. now this is the same speaker boehner that didn't like the word compromise not too long ago. watch this. >> governing means compromising. >> it means working together. >> it also means compromise. >> it means finding common g...