Jaribu Hill is Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She joins us to discuss a Mississippi political scandal involving a former governor who gave millions of dollars in funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to political cronies and even to a multi-millionaire former football star. In addition, the city of Jackson has been without clean water for more than a week. She joins us from Greenville to talk about Mississippi politics and how these two scandals came about.
It is imperative that the antiwar movement grows exponentially very quickly and becomes a major force in 2020.
Black adults must not allow “Hollywood to fill in the blanks” in our children’s understanding of Black history.
The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”
Even in the era of the “African-American” tag, there’s no shaking black – because James Brown made it cool to be black.
It appears that lies and/or false narratives are being used to rationalize this latest heinous act that may also result in another senseless war.
