For All ACLU Mississippi

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. ACLU of MS Legal Director Josh Tom and Founder of Julian, Jill Jefferson join the podcast to explain how Lexington Police have wrongfully harmed the community, and what’s needed on the path to justice.

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. LGBTQ Justice Project Attorney McKenna Raney-Gray explains what makes a discriminatory dress code, and how it disproportionately impacts students who are girls, Black and LGBTQ.

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. Featuring ACLU-MS Communications and Advocacy Director Candace Coleman and Policy Counsel Vara Lyons.

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. Mississippian Amanda Furdge explains her late education on abortion and the mission to destigmatize the word abortion. ACLU of Texas’ Blair Wallace shares the origin of the state’s Senate Bill 8. 
To fight for abortion rights: 
https://www.aclu-ms.org/en/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-abortion
https://www.aclutx.org/en/know-your-rights/abortion-texas

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