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A plan by Republican lawmakers to set up a new court system served by a state-run police force for parts of mainly Black Jackson has become a flash point for racial and political divisions.
The Mississippi Cannabis Patients Alliance is pushing for Gov. Tate Reeves to call a special session to legalize medical marijuana.
Opinion: Jackson water crisis shows Nina Simone is still right about Mississippi CNN 3/14/2021 Opinion by Keri Leigh Merritt © Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A brother and sister sit while their mother volunteers at a water and food distribution drive in Jackson, Mississippi after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. Summoned to the South by Marian Wright of the NAACP, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph Clark traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the Spring of 1967 to assess the effectiveness of the federal War on Poverty programs. Wright had testified befo...