the state of mississippi. ellen b. meacham: the state had its own spy agency, essentially. they paid mississippians to spy on other mississippians. reuben v. anderson: the sovereignty commission investigated 85,000. mississippians and they were a force in holding black people down and white people who wanted to change things. we lost a lot of great people who gave up on mississippi and moved away. speaker 16: it's time to take a stand. by working together, we can and will safeguard our freedom [music playing] gerald blessey: barnett was governor up until the end of 1963. he couldn't run for re-election, but he could step out for four years and come back, which is what we feared. we didn't want to spend the rest of our lives being led by people like that. frank thackston: barnett had prospects for getting re-elected, and maybe senator kennedy would like to have something to say about that. gerald blessey: but if we could just expose those conversations, he'd be seen as a liar, even to the segregationists. we'd

why can't i love mississippi? ♪ y'all know the name pyinfamous ♪ ♪ all bets are off i'm through talking ♪ ♪ never gonna fall for my spider move august and september ♪ ♪ block your october so you should be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race 'cause they ran a lame campaign ♪ ♪ i'm over here cooking victory you want a taste? ♪ >> anthony: pyinfamous is a proud son and resident of mississippi. a youth mentor in jackson's church and public school systems, owner of a marketing agency, and hip-hop artist. this town, it feels empty. where is everybody? >> pyinfamous: i think one thing is a lot of people think that you have to leave mississippi to be able to do something great. but i think a lot of it is there's so much bubbling in the undercurrent that sometimes isn't seen. and i think it takes an artist who usually takes something that's blank and creates something that's awesome to be able to see the potential in a place, in a canvas, so to speak, that has been vacated by others. >

the gentleman from mississippi. mr. guest: madam speaker, at this time i yield one minute to my friend from the great state of florida, mr. gimenez. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. gimenez: thank you, mr. speaker. anti-semitism has no place on the foreign affairs committee. i say it again, anti-semitism has no place on the foreign affairs committee. that's why representative omar has no place specifically on the foreign affairs committee where israel security is one of the issues of critical importance. without a doubt the democratic jewish state of israel is america's strongest alley in tht and a put right to exist. representative omar has repeated anti-semitic cue nardz and perpetuated hateful tropes against the jewish community and her comments have compromised the ability of the house foreign affairs committee to conduct its official business. i ask my colleagues to vote in the affirmative to remove representative ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. i yield back. t

the gentleman from mississippi reserves. the gentle woman from pennsylvania is recognized. i yield one minute to the minority whip katherine clark. >> the gentle lady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, to the gentle lady to pennsylvania for fielding. the speaker of the house wrote this week that removing democrats from their committees was motivated by integrity, integrity? is that the quality of honesty and acting with moral principle? there is no integrity here. congress woman omar is a hard working, valued member of the foreign affairs committee. a refugee and survivor of war, she knows firsthand how much is at stake in its work, it's too serious of a subject to be subjected to partisan games by the republican majority, but that's how the g.o.p. has decided to govern. not with solutions, but with political stunts. how can my colleagues across the aisle talk about integrity and honor as they empower the most extreme voices in their party, as they claim due process has been added in when there is none, and as they

voters in jackson, mississippi. mississippi, thoroughly controlled by white republicans, who have redrawn districts -- >> john and, state your point of order. >> the judgment is talking about state issues and we are talking about house bill, if you could stay on topic. amy: after kevin windham continued discussing the mississippi legislation, house speaker cut his microphone and ended debate on the bill. that prompted an angry response from black lawmakers, including missouri legislative black caucus chair marlene terry. >> there is a lot of racism going on here. it is racist to not allow him to speak. we have to have permission to ask questions on the floor. there is a list that has to go around. we are trying to work with them and it is not working out. amy: this comes after missouri republicans rently approved bills limiting public educion about race, criminalizing drag shows, adopting a stricter dress code for women lawmakers, and blocked a proposed ban on children carrying guns in public without adult supervisi

this time gloriously lit by, you know, mississippi sun. it was clear day the men were wearing their hard hats and the blue and clouds were reflecting on the surface of these red and blue hard hats and and the men marched back to company gates and took their hardhats off. and in a symbolic of leaving the company, proudly leaving the company through their hard hats in the air at the company gates, and then we learned the police was on their way. we clambered onto busses and sped out to new orleans where we hid and for the department of justice to answer our criminal. yeah, yeah. so in the people have tried to organize and protect workers you know in various sectors of our economy and found very difficult to find success. what do you think made your campaign for the indian workers it signals successful. it was obviously very good intelligence and so it was using communication skills. it was using marching to washington as a tool. but just describe the the multifaceted campaign that you led, which led to the. well, i think it was a sea of choi

and mayor lumumba, please, explain how it can be possible that the capital of mississippi, jackson, mississippi is i think to your point going to be governed apartheid style? >> well, i think to speak to it honestly, i am reflecting on the words of denis quickly who once said they are who we thought they were. as we've been calling out these clearly racist policies, that has been done much in the state leadership think we're giving mississippi a black eye. and to be clear, it's not our words that give mississippi a black eye, it is the actions that they're taking, actions that will not allow or disenfranchise voters in jackson, mississippi. this particular law is fraught with constitutional violations, unequal protection, and it is sticking to create a district in which the most densely white population, populated area and the city of jackson, in addition to a police force, a more militarized force that does not have a direct accountability to the residents within the district that already exists, there have been numerous claims about issues of police misconduct that are not being challenged, t

these were two labor camps, the main one in mississippi, another one in texas, and did both a large mississippi oil rig builder was holding workers in what a federal court would come to recognize later as forced labor. the men were recruited on false promises of green cards and good jobs but were toiling away on temporary visas living in trailers on company property. and when i -- you know, when i started partnering with the men, the big question they asked me was what can you do for us? what can we do? one of the men i meant -- met was a worker and also the kind of partner and labor worker organizer dreams of. he had lent strikes, he had been part of actions to improve labor conditions and other places around the world, and the middle east, azerbaijan, and he came to me and said in a secret meeting what do we need to do? do we need to strike? i explained in this case a strike will not be helpful. you striper things that a workplace can give you. you striper things that a company has the power to produce for you. in this case, the workers needed to stay in the united states, but the company was

>> in mississippi. >> my name is missy jones. my title is a visiting a of history at mississippi college. >> -- >> almost 15 years now, if i think back. >> what is this? >> this is johnson milling company. it's been here for ages. but right behind it is the location of the old train depot, and the thought was that we would put the marker for the clinton riot here because of the importance of the train. >> the clinton riots began on september 4th, 1875, and the direct behind me tells a virgin of those events. the original train depot is where white paramilitary units flocked into clinton. there was a political valley, and it was one of the first times that african americans had gotten together to really listen to political candidates, and it was organized by the republican party. but there was also a group of white democrats who were sent there to disrupt things. shooting out african american families began to flee the scene, even one mother left her child in hollow of a tree just for protection. and over the course of the next se

this time, jackson, mississippi, were flooding from climate change, a strained and already underfunded in the collected municipal water infrastructure all to create another crisis. was citizens without water relying on bottled. now i can flip michigan, a cynical attempt to save money, lead to public health crisis with a generational legacy of destruction. and part of that we had detroit where cities bankruptcy problem led to city officials cutting off water to residents who couldn't pay their water bills. what's the common issue with all 3 municipalities in terms of delivering safe drinking water to the residences? is the real question is right. i think there are several factors. one is, at least in the united states. when we began to shifter solutions in the market place, re shifted away from more for government action and took on, i think, even in government sort of business attitude. george got it. so in that crime, it devolved over the last 40 years, at least in this country. since during get into this ration intelligence very more the ninety's and certainly more in the last decade

i know that some years back now i'm not from mississippi. originally, i've lived on a lot of different states, but at one point i did live down in mississippi in the nineties and then moved away. then i came back to be at blue mountain college on 2009, but i remember coming here for going to brice's crossroads for the first time and i saw the dew on the ground. it was early morning, the sun was coming up and i was on the battlefield. i think because when i got there, i was like, there's not a whole lot there's not a lot of monuments there. and it's like, i think i'm in the right place and there's been some books written on it. morris has written on it, and a few other people. and i thought, wow, it'd be great if i had a book that i could really get into here too, to look at. and i left and went on to my exploits. but then again, 2009 came back to mississippi, and this time i only lived about 20 miles away from brice's crossroads. and so i stopped in and i did some more research. and i'm looking at the things there. and the day came when i wa

in 1890 mississippi adopted a new constitution. delegates were very clear about their intentions at the constitutional convention that summer. convention president, a white judge named solomon calhoun said we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short of this will answer. oh and they did with devastating consequences that stretched far into the 20th century. enraged at the formerly enslaved voting mississippi installed a poll tax and literacy tests designed to exclude black voters that remained in place until 1965. the constitution adopted in 1890 by 133 white men put a nail in the coffin of reconstruction in mississippi and created the precedent for jim crow for the entire south. it is that history which informs why black citizens of mississippi's capital, jackson, are rightly furious about what white state lawmakers are trying to do now. after a super majority in the heavily gerrymandered state house voted to create an entirely separate court system and expand the police force within the city of jackson, the blackest city in a

and we have a very big danger in mississippi, especially in mississippi delta, of hospitals closing or downgrading services. stephanie: greenwood leflore hospital has been open for more than a century, but it's now on borrowed time. hospital officials say they only have enough money to stay solvent through june. dr. thakur: no chest pain, anything like that? >> no chest pain. stephanie: dr. abasha thakur is greenwood leflore's only cardiologist. the hospital has closed its maternity ward and intensive care unit and has 40% fewer employees than it had in 2021. dr. thakur: and you're eating good? >> yes. dr. thakur: not bad stuff, right? >> no. no. [laughter] stephanie: in his own unit, dr. thakur had a nurse practitioner laid off as well. dr. thakur: people can get sick and can die from this kind of disease, where we can help if we can catch it early. stephanie: it's preventable? dr. thakur: that's right. hey, hope. how are you? hope: i'm doing fine. stephanie: 50-year-old hope cooper has an elevated heart rate and a leaky heart valve. she's been seeing dr. thakur for almost three years

and it's dark in the bottoms of mississippi, tippy. and here they're coming, screaming, yelling you don't know what's going to happen. you've heard lots of stories. so it's a scary, scary thing. some of the soldiers got into so much mud and it dried on their pants and it slowed him down that they cut their pant legs off and were in shorts to make their way back to memphis. it's a good hoof all the way up to memphis, just where i live in new albany on 22, i believe it is. it's 60 miles to memphis and they're there on foot and even further away. so here these guys are just trying to get back home to keep from being captured. a forest does not stop up. he is relentless. he sends his men after him. but here's the thing. a lot of his men are tired. what he does is he trades them for the horse holders. you know what i mean by that? there are certain troops that had to hold the horses. he has all cavalry. so you had so many men to hold so many horse reins. so now you switch and now he's got reinforcements in a way. and so now they help in the

all the while, the state of mississippi has avoided that. instead has proposed this takeover which allows judges to have jurisdiction over civil matters. that has nothing to do with the issue of crime and public safety. while initially drafting a jurisdiction or a district which largely covers the most densely possible -- the areas that have the lowest rate of crime. so it is a trojan horse. that comes in the name of public safety. but is actually an attack on black leadership. >> here is what one of the sponsors has to say about it. this is state rep trey lamar a republican. she says that it is only designed to assist the court systems by helping a portion of jackson, the improvement district carved out back in 2017 and had full support of democrats back then. what is your response? >> i don't know what he would say in terms of the full support of democrats. in 2017, i was a part of a group called the coalition for economic justice where we solved this as a trojan horse at this time. want to be clear that the democrats who did support in th

or what happened to jackson, mississippi and continues today. or the detroit sher austin began in 2014 or the front lead crisis. and let me add one more dark in the michigan great lakes region. the algorithm crisis in the west. you're my 3rd year and we have we have one of the great lakes western, luxurious experiencing serious our last 89 years and there's no government action that is adequately addressed. the problem and 400000 people were shut off from the water supply years ago because of the toxicity of these books. so what government has done is they see their, their utility water service, and i'm just going to talk about water service on that. the bigger, wider issues on the planet you'd like to show and maybe talk about what's called the probably just doctors. but i think what we do, we shifted in this wider delivery as a product. and people are customers. well, that's a contractual relationship. if you have contractual rates but, but, but it doesn't mean that you have some fundamental, right? it's already as good as the contract. and yo

jackson, mississippi and continues today. or the detroit charter. austin began in 2014 or the front leg crisis. and let me add one more dark in michigan, great lakes region. the algorithm crisis in the west. you're one 3rd of your we're, we have one of the great lakes western reserve exchanging seriously over the last 89 years. and there's no, no government action that is adequately addressed the problem. and 400000 people were shut off from the water supply years ago because the toxicity of these books. so what the government has done is they see their, their utility water service. and i'm just going to talk about water service on that, the bigger, wider issues on the planet. i should like to show and maybe talk about what's called the probably just dr. but i think what we do, we shifted in this wire delivery as a product. and people are customers, well, read a contractual relationship. and i suppose you have contractual rates. right? but it doesn't mean that you have some fundamental, right? it's already as good as the cont

i have friends from county, mississippi. i've got friends from philadelphia mississippi. and i have photos of the memorial. they have down on the highway in mississippi. and yes, i was in selma. the thing have to do is come together and not make anybody not make anybody the enemy, the police have got a lot of crazy a lot of corrupt people there. marginal criminals, as far as i'm concerned. what happened in florida? what happened in florida was atrocious. happened in ferguson was the trojans. but we have got to come together and understand, work together, not create. it's partizanship that you are talking about. so we have to work together. and i am. i've been to east harlem. i've been there with the i.r.a. i have watched people, crazy people out there. as i said, i a former civil rights worker and i believe we could come together and i look at more atrocities happening in northern city. thank you. thank you. at this thank you so much for your comments. we've run out of time. thank again for joining us and care. anytime

i have friends from county, mississippi. i've got friends from philadelphia mississippi. and i have photos of the memorial. they have down on the highway in mississippi. and yes, i was in selma. the thing have to do is come together and not make anybody not make anybody the enemy, the police have got a lot of crazy a lot of corrupt people there. marginal criminals, as far as i'm concerned. what happened in florida? what happened in florida was atrocious. happened in ferguson was the trojans. but we have got to come together and understand, work together, not create. it's partizanship that you are talking about. so we have to work together. and i am. i've been to east harlem. i've been there with the i.r.a. i have watched people, crazy people out there. as i said, i a former civil rights worker and i believe we could come together and i look at more atrocities happening in northern city. thank you. thank you. at this thank you so much for your comments. we've run out of time. thank again for joining us and care. anytimephilip. congratulations jens, on the publication of, y

i have friends from county, mississippi. i've got friends from philadelphia mississippi. and i have photos of the memorial. they have down on the highway in mississippi. and yes, i was in selma. the thing have to do is come together and not make anybody not make anybody the enemy, the police have got a lot of crazy a lot of corrupt people there. marginal criminals, as far as i'm concerned. what happened in florida? what happened in florida was atrocious. happened in ferguson was the trojans. but we have got to come together and understand, work together, not create. it's partizanship that you are talking about. so we have to work together. and i am. i've been to east harlem. i've been there with the i.r.a. i have watched people, crazy people out there. as i said, i a former civil rights worker and i believe we could come together and i look at more atrocities happening in northern city. thank you. thank you. at this thank you so much for your comments. we've run out of time. thank again for joining us and care. anytime chief sun, thanks for being with us. you're the autho

i have friends from county, mississippi. i've got friends from philadelphia mississippi. and i have photos of the memorial. they have down on the highway in mississippi. and yes, i was in selma. the thing have to do is come together and not make anybody not make anybody the enemy, the police have got a lot of crazy a lot of corrupt people there. marginal criminals, as far as i'm concerned. what happened in florida? what happened in florida was atrocious. happened in ferguson was the trojans. but we have got to come together and understand, work together, not create. it's partizanship that you are talking about. so we have to work together. and i am. i've been to east harlem. i've been there with the i.r.a. i have watched people, crazy people out there. as i said, i a former civil rights worker and i believe we could come together and i look at more atrocities happening in northern city. thank you. thank you. at this thank you so much for your comments. we've run out of time. thank again for joining us and care. anytimephilip.

mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. i did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. one scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all-segregated area. i assumed you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a to master -- -- domestic -- and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do. from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in particular, white girls and white women. you had places you did not go. so, there were

jackson, mississippi and continues today. or the detroit charter. austin began in 2014 or the lead crisis. and let me add one more dark in michigan, great lakes region. the algorithm crisis and the western one 3rd of the year we have we have one of the great lakes western reserve experiencing serious our last 89 years. and there's been no government action that is adequately addressed the problem and 400000 people were shut off from the water supply years ago because of the toxicity of these birds. so what government has done is they see their, their utility water service, and i'm just going to talk about water service now. the bigger, wider issues on the planet. i should like to show and maybe talk about what's called the probably just doctors. but i think what we do, we shifted in this wider delivery as a product. and people are customers, well, retro contractual relationship. and i suppose you have contractual rates. right. but it doesn't mean that you have some fundamental, right? it's already as good as the contract. and

stephanie sy reports were mississippi, the state with the highest rate of heart disease on how access to care is affecting debt -- residents in the world delta. -- rural delta. correspondent: in a small room tucked away in a physical rehab center, nurse lee roach is putting her patients through their paces. >> stand close to the front, it is easier. if you start dragging behind you will be ck over here in this chair. correspondent: each patient is recovering from a serious cardiac event like a heart attack or heart surgery, and as they go through their circuit of exercises each patient's heart rate and blood pressure are closely monitored. >> exercise will make it go down, and then you have got to watch the sugars that you eat. correspondent: while they are here roach and counseling. >> small changes make very big differences. we can change a little bit. correspondent: 66-year-old leslie travels here from a small rural town almost one hour away. she recently had a stent put in her heart. >> it helped me a whole lot. correspondent: 75-year-old james wellborn is recovering from open-hea

mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. i did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. one scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all-segregated area. i assumed you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a domestic -- and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do. from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in particular, white girls and white women. you had places you did not go. so, there were modes of behavio

mississippi. i was in mississippi in 1964, two counties away, two or three counties away from franklin. and it was not until the early 20th, first century that i and my colleagues from snick knew about that lynching. and indeed it was a lynching and it was sad as well. and my ability to help those families that inspired me to spend now 15 years on this project. thank you brandon and thank you to so i want to begin by saying that i am so excited to teach brennan's book i think is going to be transformed our understanding of the history of race and with respect to law and also extralegal violence. and so i want to be a fan for a moment. and so a i mean, the the basic sort of premise of the book of my book is that we talk in this country often about south as this place that is somehow other indifferent, an outlier to the nation as opposed to what i think is a more accurate account, which is actually it's the center of the country. it has moved the country about is where the country began and it actua

mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. i did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. one scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all-segregated area. i assumed you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a domestic -- and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do. from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in also particular, white girls and white women. you had places you did not go. so, there were modes of be

mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. i did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. one scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade it to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all-segregated area. i assumed you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a domestic and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do. from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in particular, white girls and white women. you had places you did not go. so, there were moments of behav

the state of mississippi. now, many of these people are not because all types conniving methods are still being to keep -- becoming registered voters. and in fact, some are even killed. seeking to lead voter registry drives so that the democrat process is not operative in such a way. sounds like mississippi and alabama. so many of the other states, southern states where there is this determined effort to keep from becoming registered voters. well, let me say this, that if the right to vote, which is a basic civil right, is prescribed both by the constitution and by statute, i think there can be no one to impede that. but i'm confused over what you turn to be basic constitutional rights, which would give the federal government authority to direct private business under what section of the constitution would you say that could be done? well, i think it could be done under several sections, but i would like to see it on the 14th amendment, which says that no state has a right to deny an individ equal protection o

so where a man may make baskets in nigeria out of some sort of weed or reed in mississippi people make a lot of baskets of pine needles because they a lot pine trees a of people make baskets out of white oak it's all depending on how one is going to use the basket. as we race rapidly into. 21st century. many of the crafts, the traditional folk life practices. are vanishing. one of the reasons they are vanishing is people longer are practicing them. but if you look very hard and go through the backwoods, you can find people who are still practitioners of traditional crafts quilters. there are many people still around quilting, but they are generally people over 50. it's a lot simpler. a young woman today to go buy a blanket from the store and take the time that it takes to sit down and piece up the top of a quilt and then roll up on a quilting frame and then stick the needle through all three levels and quilted. and so you find some of the senior citizens or the older black people who still have a tremendous love for this tradition, you find them doing it, but you don't find a lot of yo

mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. i did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. one scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade it to morehouse. -- the 10th grade to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all-segregated area. i assumed you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a domestic and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do. from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in particular, white girls and white women. you had places you did not go.

but william's new distillery proves there's richness in the mississippi delta. harvey: there's more to this town than just a bunch of old farmers. i mean, there's so much more. and i want and i believe that this distillery can bring some positive light to that. dina: patrons from all over the delta are drawn to williams' award-winning vodka and gin made from sweet potatoes grown on his family farm. delta dirt is the only black-owned farm-distillery in the country. but for williams and his wife, delta dirt is distinguished by something even more profound. harvey: donna and i were intentional about wanting our business to be for all people. dina: williams, an agricultural engineer, and his family returned to the area after years of working outside the state. harvey: i didn't necessarily want to farm, like drive tractors every day, but i did want the farm to be sustained. dina: in the early decades of the 20th century, his great-grandfather was a sharecropper on these 86 acres. but his grandfather devoted himself to buying the land in 1949, selling his cotton for a