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Here’s a handy reference of facts when discussing abortion rights with friends and family at the dinner table.

Mississippi has its share of policies that subject LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus all of the gender identities and sexual orientations that are not specifically covered by the other five initials) persons to discrimination, from the prejudiced Religious Liberty Accommodations Act, to the most recent anti-trans student-athlete law, and more.

In 2006, the FBI sent an informant to pose as a convert and spy on one of the country's largest Muslim communities.

A city official warned that “if you let them build it, they will come.”

Philanthropy Women | October 19, 2021

This year, Ohio is the first state to pass statewide maps and is exhibiting what unfairly apportioned electoral district boundaries look like.

Mary Grace Eppes | WAPT | September 20, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. Supreme Court has set oral arguments for Dec. 1 in Mississippi's abortion case challenging Roe v. Wade.

Emily Wagster Pettus | Associated Press | August 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s two most densely populated counties are on the far northern and southern ends of the state, according to 2020 census numbers released Thursday.

What happens when federal prison staff speak out on the dangers ravaging their facility during COVID-19? Almost nothing, it seems.