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It's Adria R. Walker's first byline at Mississippi Today, and it's naturally a harrowing and important story about her hometown. mississippitoday.org/2023/07/06/jac…

beyoncé shouted mississippi out at her toronto show last night. southern solidarity >>>

Weeks after St. Dominic announced the closure of its behavioral services unit, two metro-area hospitals are too full to admit psychiatric patients. mississippitoday.org/2023/07/10/jac…

Gannett's How We Live team + couple more in Northeast Region earned 10 awards: 3 firsts, 2 seconds, 4 thirds, 1 hm. Praise Matthew Korfhage Kelly Powers Sammy Gibbons Ricardo Kaulessar Christopher Maag Tina MacIntyre-Yee 🌊 Adria R. Walker Katie Sullivan Borrelli Tracy Schuhmacher Seth Harrison Rob Bell Peter D. Kramer

Officers working for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative were ordered to push "small children and nursing babies" back into the Rio Grande, according to an email from a trooper "I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane" expressnews.com/politics/texas…

BREAKING: Teachers sue over Tennessee law restricting what they can teach about race, gender, and bias tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/26/2380…

Read the full story from me at @MSTodayNews and Mollie R. Simon and Agnel Philip 🌵🔎 at @ProPublica here: propublica.org/article/they-n…

spent months reporting on families across America who have lost children to drowning. What I found is that in America, swimming is a luxury rather than a public good. nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opi…

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year click2houston.com/news/local/202…

“I wanted to continue to tell stories about Black food and Black foodways, but also have them connected to our health, as well.” I talked to Growing Resilience in the South (GRITS) founder Sadé Meeks in my latest for Mississippi Today. mississippitoday.org/2023/07/31/gri…

Months after Nanih Waiya, a sacred site, was vandalized, Choctaw officials still seek answers My latest for Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2023/08/07/nan…

If Alabama’s experience foreshadows Mississippi’s future, expect the EPA to find plenty of toxic “forever chemicals” in the drinking water. buff.ly/442cKtR

A pregnant prison guard says she was forced to stay at work for hours after contraction-like pain began — leading to her stillbirth. Now, Texas is fighting a lawsuit, in part because the “defending the unborn” state says the fetus had no clear rights. texastribune.org/2023/08/11/tex…

“Major, if the hospital calls me to come get that baby, I’m going to get that baby.” Roberta Bell lost her job after agreeing to care for an incarcerated woman's newborn. Now she wants to start a center to help others in need. My latest for Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2023/08/11/rob…

A not-so-great takeaway from last week’s Zoom mess... If the company had employed broader policy language, it could have trained AI with user content data *without* opt-in consent—and faced essentially no legal risk in the process. themarkup.org/hello-world/20…

New data shows that another 22k Mississippians have been dropped from Medicaid. During the first wave of disenrollments, 29k people were terminated from the agency's rolls, bringing the total so far to 50k. mississippitoday.org/2023/08/17/med…

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in Mississippi. The interim state epidemiologist says it's because record hot temps are forcing people inside and school's back in session.mississippitoday.org/2023/08/25/cov…

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out. Don't miss this fascinating and important story from Adria R. Walker theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

Great reporting by Adria R. Walker on an Alabama town refusing to recognize an elected Black mayor theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…