I was shooting the shit with my Dad. We were just talking, trying solve world issues over a 30 minute phone conversation. Anyway, we got on the subject of the most shocking events that happened during his lifetime. He’s 81 years old, so his lifetime is legit, ya know? Anyway, he listed a couple of events, including the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Neshoba County, Mississippi. In...
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Our Civil Rights Legends are dying. And this is natural. It’s a natural progression. They die. They transition. Because they’ve done all they can. But they tire. They tire from life. They tire from fighting all of the hardships, all of the battles, all of the wars. Some transition violently, while others transition naturally and peacefully. But they die. And their deaths, as tragic as they are, allows for...
It was my second year of law school when I, like many of my colleagues, called my local circuit’s Clerk of Court’s office to request an absentee ballot. Mike Espy was running against Cindy Hyde Smith, and I decided I had to be a part of the opportunity to elect the second black US Senator in Mississippi History. Mike Espy ran with a goal of impacting the Mississippi economy,...
