'For All' podcast

In the small town of Lexington, Mississippi, one of the poorest counties in the state, the police department's crucial promise to protect and serve is broken.

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. 

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.

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.

Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing separate arguments on extreme abortion ban laws in Mississippi and Texas, two women talk about their decisions to have abortions.

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

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. 

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.

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. 

Vanessa has lived in Mississippi for almost two decades since fleeing gender-based discrimination in 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 this first episode, she shares her experiences as a DACA recipient, and how witnessing language barriers and bias in healthcare lead her to becoming a traveling nurse.