Discover 10 Black-only towns across the U.S., facing economic struggles and demographic challenges. Explore their median ...

That program cut child poverty ... Jackson, Mississippi, participants in the fourth cohort of the Magnolia Mother's Trust Program, which gives $1,000 per month for 12 months to Black mothers ...

Mississippi’s Black community has been loyal to the Democratic ... to lag behind the rest of the nation in critical areas like poverty reduction and educational attainment.

Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things.

The regions with the highest poverty rates are concentrated around the Mississippi River, which are also the regions with the highest Black populations. Mississippi’s Black residents are three ...

The interactive, multiplayer game is a fun way to educate everyone from middle-schoolers to adults on how the levers of ...

Southern states have seized on a political environment that allows them to do the things that matter,’ one analyst avers.

Among just children in poverty, Mississippi fourth graders now are ... and pride bubbling in the halls of de facto segregated Black schools in some of the nation’s poorest communities.

“Black voters in Mississippi, when they feel like they ... according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Voter suppression isn't the only issue Black people are riding on in 2024.

The organization focuses on Black communities impacted by ... one in five residents—compared to the national poverty average of nearly 12%. Mississippi is also the hungriest state in the U.S ...

THE MISSISSIPPI BLACK WOMEN’S ROUNDTABLE IS ALSO IN THAT FIGHT ... Edney said some of the factors are poverty, living in rural areas where there is limited access to health care, and even having ...

Four Black justices have served on the Mississippi ... The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Mississippi, Southern Poverty Law Center and the New York-based law firm Simpson Thacher ...