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By Nikki Rowell | The Northside Sun | August 6, 2020

Against the backdrop of racially charged comments by elected officials, Jeff Robinson, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, will lead a conversation on the history of racism in Mississippi and America on Monday, November 19, 2018 at 6 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex Theatre.“A Front Row Seat” will offer insight into the state’s history of slavery, slave patrols, lynchings, black codes, Jim Crow, and modern-day mass incarceration the night before the final debate between candidates for U.S. Senate in the special runoff election. The event will take audience members through a historic exploration of racial terrorism on a local and national level. There will also be an opportunity for audience members to ask questions.

By Nusrat Choudhury, Staff Attorney, ACLU Racial Justice Program

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