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Mississippi NAACP Challenges GOP Effort to Take Control Over Black-Majority Capital Jackson

HeadlineMar 09, 2023

In Mississippi, the NAACP says it will challenge several GOP-led bills making their way through the Legislature which threaten residents in the majority-Black capital of Jackson by handing state police more power and granting the state control over the city’s troubled water system. We’ll go to Jackson, Mississippi, later in the broadcast to speak with Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and author and activist Makani Themba.

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