Jackson

The Reconstruction of Democracy in America

ussen2018-01-22T23:09:38-05:00via Medium Lessons from Jackson, Mississippi by John Duda This piece was written before the November 2016 US election, and originally appeared as “La démocratie en construction aux États-Unis” in La Pensée n°388. My intent in writing the piece was to highlight, for a non-US audience, some of...

Black Power Takes Root in the Heart of Dixie

ussen2018-01-18T11:27:46-05:00via The Indypendent by Marisa Anne Day Jackson is the largest city in Mississippi. Surrounded by prosperous white suburbs, it is more than 80 percent Black and overwhelmingly working-class. “If you are making $10 an hour here you are doing damn good,” says Kali Akuno, who for...

A Fresh Model for Economic and Social-Justice Politics is Emerging in the South

ussen2017-05-12T21:30:31-04:00via The Nation Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor by John Nichols When Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks, and actor Danny Glover joined thousands of Mississippians in marching for labor rights two months ago, economic and...

Jackson, Mississippi’s Radical Mayoral Candidate

ussen2017-05-08T16:01:51-04:00via In These Times If the Left can make it here, they can make it anywhere. by Kate Aronoff The city of Jackson, in the heart of staunchly Republican Mississippi, might seem an unlikely place for a municipal revolution. Yet Jackson’s radicalism has been forged in the crucible...