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.
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Privatization of health care is why some of the wealthiest countries have proved unable to respond rapidly to the pandemic.
The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire.
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations.
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places.
