OPINION: How Much is a Human Life Worth?Every day the media report the number of new infections and deaths attributed to COVID-19, and many debate the closing or opening of schools, businesses and places of worship.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Gov. Reeves, Stop the InsanityGov. Reeves knew the threat to Mississippi hospitals when he implemented one of the most liberal reopening plans of any U.S. state in late May. As with Florida and Texas, Mississippi has paid for its governor's lack of clarity and ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Rage and Grace Amid COVID-19In Mississippi, will it take bodies piled up on North State Street outside of UMMC before we all stand hand-in-hand, unafraid to collectively unite and govern ourselves?
OPINION: Blackness and Whiteness, To Whom the Story of America ConcernsJames Baldwin said "the story of the in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story." This ugly, brutal, and festering story is the truth that Black Americans are born into and that Black Americans wake ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Stop Glamorizing the Cruelty of Racist Ancestors"The Legislature put up this flag as a stated symbol of white supremacy in 1894 as all those hideous soldier statues were popping up with their sappy remembrances, and it can take this putridly racist flag down in 2020."
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The Stennis Flag Is the Best Choice Now for MississippiThis spring and early summer have been heavy and filled with circumstances that one could not imagine only six months ago. COVID-19 is decimating our communities, and we endured another triad of black bodies killed because they were existing while ...
OPINION: No ‘Free Kills’ Unless We Are Black in Jackson"The mayor claims to be against police murder. The “no free kills” banner Lumumba surrogates recently rallied under obfuscates that no real costs are meted out when the Jackson police kill Black people."
OPINION: What Is Wrong with America Is Us White PeopleThis word is for white people. I will start with my own identity: I am a white, heterosexual, 43-year-old man from Mississippi. There is a crisis of belief among what has felt like the vast majority of our white sisters ...
OPINION: From Curfew to SWAT Team, Mayor Lumumba’s Police State ExpandingSuggesting he is against the governor’s hasty reopening of the economy and in response to the COVID-19 virus, while jabbering about “science and data,” the mayor says “we” don’t have the luxury of “a wait-and-see approach.”
OPINION: Watson’s Voting Views: Dressing Jim Crow Up in New Clothes"In the shadow of Mississippi’s incredibly fraught history with voting, (Mississippi Secretary of State Michael) Watson rails against the bogeyman of potential voter fraud with the clear intent to keep minorities from voting."
OPINION: Mayor Lumumba Remains Silent on Predatory Culture of Jackson PoliceRecently, at a press conference Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said that none of the “outside agitators” who opposed the disarming of Jackson’s overwhelming black population cared enough about the issue of innocent children’s lives being taken to say their names.