Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida. ... Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Illinois. Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California. ..…
That could be attributed to the fact that the southern state is one of only two states (along with Mississippi) that haven’t passed any of the gender equality laws recommended by the American Association of University Women. ..…
A 2017 vote at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, failed by a wide margin. . ..…
Gottheimer based his slam of Mississippi on 2019 report from Rockefeller Institute of Government which documented that in 2017 New Jersey received 82 cents for every dollar paid in federal taxes while Mississippi received $2.19 for each dollar paid in federal taxes. ... Some 15 percent..…
Victoria Bynum's The Free State of Jones Mississippi's Longest Civil War and Osha Gray Davidson's The Best of Enemies Race and Redemption in New South are academic historical accounts that have made the leap from the page to the silver screen.. ..…
Race and juries: Did a white prosecutor from Mississippi engage in racial discrimination when he excluded all but one black person from the jury for the sixth murder trial of a black defendant? ... Mississippi) . . . Partisan gerrymanders: Did North Carolina’s Republican legislature..…
In 2015, Josh Vallum brutally murdered 17-year-old trans woman Mercedes Williamson in Mississippi, an attack he planned for several days in order to keep his fellow gang members from learning that he had knowingly slept with a trans woman. ..…
Gerald Peary is a Professor Emeritus at Suffolk University, Boston, curator of the Boston University Cinematheque, and the general editor of the “Conversations with Filmmakers” series from the University Press of Mississippi. ..…