Mississippi's Equal Pay For Equal Work Act has drawn criticism from leading equal-pay advocates, including the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, which asked Gov. Reeves to veto the bill, calling it “a sham of an equal pay law.” mississippifreepress.org/22416/black-eq…
In an op-ed the Mississippi Free Press published in February, national equal-pay activist Lilly Ledbetter warned that the legislation risked “widening Mississippi’s gender wage gap and stripping Mississippians of their rights.” mississippifreepress.org/20600/dont-be-…
NEW: Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill repealing and replacing the Mississippi's segregation-inspired state song, which honored racist Gov. Ross Barnett.
The old state song took its tune from Ross Barnett’s 1959 campaign jingle that included the lyrics, “Roll with Ross, he’s his own boss. For segregation, 100%. He’s not a moderate like some of the gents. He’ll fight integration with forceful intent.” mississippifreepress.org/23082/mississi…
During his run for governor, segregationist Dixiecrat Barnett described segregation as a heaven-ordained institution. “The Negro is different because God made him different to punish him,” Barnett, the son of a Confederate veteran, said in 1959.mississippifreepress.org/23082/mississi…
"The Secrets of Dumbledore" achieved the lowest opening weekend of any Harry Potter series film, and JK Rowling only has @jk_rowling to blame.
Millions like me who have loved HP since childhood refuse pay to support an author who has since devoted herself to hating trans people.
Despite the Harry Potter books' faults (e.g., fat-phobic tropes), J.K. Rowling nevertheless stressed the importance of tolerance and standing up against bigotry in the Harry Potter books.
Well, the audience that grew up with those books are standing up to her bigotry.
A theme throughout the entire series is the evils of racism. Voldemort and the Death Eaters' obsession with "blood purity" mirrors the obsession with blood purity of white supremacists and Nazis. spectatornews.com/opinion/2016/1…
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamations declaring April 2022 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He is simultaneously declaring April as Genocide Awareness Month, though without mentioning American slavery or Native American genocide.mississippifreepress.org/22784/gov-reev…
Gov. Tate Reeves' Confederate Heritage Month proclamation comes almost a month after he signed a so-called "critical race theory" ban into law, saying CRT "humiliates" white people and makes white children "feel guilty because of their race."mississippifreepress.org/21960/gov-reev…
Mississippi's Confederate Heritage Month proclamation is a tradition that Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice began in 1993 at the request of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith warned Jackson will "legislate from the bench,” accusing her of “activism.”
In 1967, segregationist Sen Eastland warned Thurgood Marshall would make "social policy."; Sen. Stennis said he feared Marshall would be an “activist."mississippifreepress.org/22669/in-histo…
Sen. Stennis said he voted against Thurgood Marshall because he refused “to explain his philosophy” or "to answer simple factual questions.”