#Current #BlkRom4JacksonMS

"#JacksonMS is a city full of history and culture. It's also a city suffering from local, state, and national neglect.
In August 2022 when newspapers announced that the city had issued a boil order for the city’s water, many were reminded of Flint, Michigan and other working class, primarily Black cities around the country who have been left without a vital service for days, weeks, months, and years.

Safe drinking water is a human right."
https://www.currentantho.com/

We pay tribute, with grief and heavy hearts,
To Keith Murriel who sadly parts
From this world too soon
Amid cries of injustice and doom
We cannot ignore this tragedy's start

#justiceforkeithmurriel #jacksonms #policecustody #ode #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/US/3-former-jackson-police-department-officers-charged-homicide/story?id=99597702

#LawEnforcement #JacksonMS Mississippi governor signs bill expanding state control over Jackson’s judicial system and policing https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/us/jackson-mississippi-judicial-system

"The Republican-dominated Mississippi house of representatives has passed a bill to create a separate, unelected court system in the city of Jackson that would fall outside the purview of the city’s voters, the majority of whom are Black …

"Jackson’s mayor Chokwe Lumumba branded the proposed law “some of the most oppressive legislation in our city’s history”.

"“It’s oppressive because it strips the right of Black folks to vote. It’s oppressive because it puts a military force over people that has no accountability to them. It’s oppressive because there will be judges who will determine sentences over people’s lives. It’s oppressive because it redirects their tax dollars to something they don’t endorse nor believe in,” Lumumba said …

"The proposed bill is the latest in a line of extreme legislation in the state, which last year introduced a sweeping anti-critical race theory law, which met vocal opposition from the state’s Black caucus."

#JacksonMS #Mississippi
#Racism #AntiBlackness #CriticalRaceTheory #USpol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/08/jackson-mississippi-republicans-unelected-court-system

@LimWeather: D4
MRGL risk in S, Mid S US esp #TylerTX, #NewOrleans, #BatonRouge, #Shreveport, #JacksonMS, #LittleRock, #Jonesboro, #FayettevilleAR, #Memphis, #JacksonTN, #Paducah
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This story needs to be back in the spotlight! Tell friends and family that the black lives of #JacksonMS cannot be ignored as the state's #GOP and their ignoramus governor #TateReeves laughs down at them from his throne. #BlackLivesMatter

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jackson-mississippi-still-dealing-water-crisis-rcna65563

Who else is watching ‘We’re Here’?

De'Bronski‘s performance was remarkable. And the costuming was brilliant: From someone who felt invisible to someone who filled the entire stage up to the rafters!

#DeBronski #WereHere #WereHereHBO #QueerCulture #QueerVisibility #JacksonMS #Mississippi #Drag #DragQueen

@GuerillaOntologist I thought I saw an article floating around somewhere in the past few days about Akuno levying criticism of Mayor Lumumba. I'll see if I can dig it up, but I wonder if there's a strategic split akin the the #BernieSanders v. #MurrayBookchin feud in #BurlingtonVt in the 1980s? I'll see if I can dig up the article...

#btv #JacksonRising #cooperationjackson #ms #JacksonMS