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Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Press Forward grantee. Also @jxnfreepress Give https://t.co/wfKmO2cdVi
Mississippi, USA
Joined December 2019
"There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter. But that bird has flown the coop," Ashton Pittman writes. Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X:
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Twitter’s time as a useful news-sharing tool has passed since it transformed into the toxic wasteland known as X.
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The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program for land-grant HBCUs has reopened after the federal government temporarily suspended it.
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The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program for land-grant HBCUs has reopened after the federal government temporarily suspended it.
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“We feel like we're abandoning the community that we've built around this," MSU Coastal and Marine Extension Program Director Erica Sparks said after the abrupt cancelation of a USDA grant for coastal restoration work.
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Mississippi is already feeling impacts as the Trump administration slashes environmental protection funding and ends efforts to fight climate change.
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OPINION: "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has said that, since January 2025, it is detaining and planning to deport 600 to 1,000 immigrants a day," Francisco I. Pedraza, Jason L. Morin and Loren Collingwood write.
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Authors write about how deportation will negatively affect the U.S. economy due to immigrants' missing financial contributions.
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