Better MS Report

Blog post raises questions about judicial integrity, judicial independence Special to the Better Mississippi Report JACKSON (Tuesday, April 5, 2011) – One day after a political blog reported that Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said a federal judge will “take care of” Republicans in legislative redistricting, House Speaker Billy McCoy is asking Bryant and Gov. Haley [...]

The Clarion-Ledger: Debate that erupted last week about the nonrenwal of the Jackson Public Schools superintendent’s contract needs to move from saving the man’s job to saving the district’s 30,000-plus students, says the leader of Mississippi’s NAACP. Jackson school board members announced Wednesday they had voted 3-1 with one member absent not to renew Lonnie [...]

Mississippi NAACP president says school district was right to nix the policy From the Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON (Friday, Sept. 3, 2010) – The Mississippi state president of the NAACP says Nettleton public schools made the right decision by ending a policy that dictated when white and black students could serve as class presidents at [...]

From The Times-Picayune: The NAACP has sent a letter to BP expressing concerns that minorities helping to clean up after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill tend to be assigned tougher, lower-paying jobs than white people. NAACP President Ben Jealous says in the letter dated Friday that he wants to meet with BP’s chief [...]

From the Jackson Free Press: The Mississippi NAACP is condemning Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson’s decision to ignore a May 11 finding by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the department fired Horn Lake trooper Michael McField for racially motivated reasons. “It is obvious that there is a structural problem within the [...]

The Mississippi Justice Coalition will hold its third annual criminal justice conference today and Saturday, April 9 and 10, in Jackson. The conference will include legislators and well-known national and state advocates for criminal justice reform. Here is more information from a news release issued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi and the [...]