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Fires On And Near HBCU Point To Arson, Authorities Say
In addition, a suspect has been identified in setting fire to Jackson State University’s baseball field as well as other buildings around the city.
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The Justice Department Is Fed Up With Jackson Mississippi Officials’ Inaction As Water Crisis Continues
The DOJ has given the city of Jackson a deadline to come up with a plan, or they will file an action under the Safe Drinking Water Act
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Jackson Mississippi’s Water Crisis is a Warning! Climate Change Will Make It Worse for Black Americans
“We’re going to be doomed” if we don’t tackle climate change and address environmental racism, experts and water activists warn.
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Water Crisis In Jackson, Mississippi Forces Deion Sanders and JSU Football Camp To Evacuate
Coach Prime and his crew decamped while President Biden declared a federal emergency.
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Jackson Mississippi Water Crisis Fails Black Community Again
Jackson, Mississippi’s water supply is so bad, its citizens won’t be able to drink it or brush their teeth with it for the immediate future.
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Legendary Poet Maya Angelou Becomes the First Black Woman To Be Featured On U.S. Quarter
It’s the first in a series of coins designed to celebrate the accomplishment of American women.
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If You're Still Holding Out for the Tubman $20, You Can Soon Make Change With Some Angelous
She’s been immortalized on a stamp (albeit amid some controversy), as a Barbie, as the subject of a Broadway-bound script, and even a Google Doodle. And of course, writer-activist Maya Angelou lives eternally in our literary imagination. Now, the renaissance woman will be one of the first American women to appear on a series of…
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Jackson City Council Votes to Remove Andrew Jackson Monument From City Hall and Put It Somewhere…Less Racist?
The movement to remove all monuments celebrating slavers, colonizers and oppressors continues in Jackson, Ms.—only, not quite. The city of Jackson isn’t doing away with its statue of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson (who the city is named for) altogether, it’s just moving the monument to racism from its prominent downtown area to somewhere where…