For All

On this episode, one parent’s fight to change gendered dress code language in Jones County, MS leads to a statewide effort to correct school handbooks. LGBTQ Justice Project Attorney McKenna Raney-Gray explains what makes a discriminatory dress code, and how it disproportionately impacts students who are girls, Black and LGBTQ.

Hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ACLU-MS staffers breakdown Mississippi's trigger ban and what's to come for Mississippians seeking abortion. Featuring ACLU-MS Communications and Advocacy Director Candace Coleman and Policy Counsel Vara Lyons.

What is Critical Race Theory? Who is learning it? And what have politicians been getting wrong about it? Hear from Chauncey Spears, Education Policy Analyst for the Mississippi Center for Justice.  

After spending nearly four decades as a Mississippi State Representative, Tyrone Ellis shares what it’s like being one of very few Black legislators to be on the redistricting committee. To fight for fair maps: https://bit.ly/3zXQt1l

For All - Ep. 5: Amir Badat on the Power of Redistricting and Black Votes

Amir Badat is the new Special Voting Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He explains why Black voting power is at risk, more than ever. He also highlights regions of the state Black voters should be paying extra attention to when the new district maps are proposed. To fight for fair maps: https://bit.ly/3zXQt1l

In our last immigrants’ rights episode, the advocates discuss excerpts from an ACLU of Mississippi forum with U.S. Representative for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District Bennie Thompson. Thompson, who also chairs the Committee on Homeland Security, shares the future of federal immigration policy and ICE detention in Mississippi. 

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Efren is a  Mississippian and lifelong immigrants’ rights organizer. His story includes experiences as a Southern activist and as a Latino man subject to anti-Hispanic discrimination. 

Episode 2: Vanessa

Vanessa has lived in Mississippi for almost two decades since fleeing gender-based discrimination in her home country of Mexico. She shares stories from her time working in majority immigrant factories, including during the 2008 ICE raids at Howard Industries. 

Jeimy is a Mississippian born in Mexico and raised in Jackson. In the first episode of For All, she shares her experiences as a DACA recipient, and how witnessing language barriers and bias in healthcare lead her to becoming a traveling nurse.