Many Republicans have passed laws in a variety of states across the nation that allow people to discriminate based on their religious beliefs, according to the Huffington Post. They were passed under the guise of protecting religious freedom,...
Teacher Cheating Scandal
Since the passage of the "No Child Left Behind Act" in 2002, the education reform movement has increasingly focused on measuring students with standardized tests. Test scores are used to assess student growth, but they are...
Many states have been passing bills dealing with public bathrooms. They seemed to be obsessed with people's genitals and where they go pee. They have barred transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender...
If you want to divorce in Mississippi, you better pray it isn't because your spouse beats you. As it turns out, domestic violence is not one of the 12 allowances for divorce in this state. Sally Doty,...
First lady Michelle Obama made an unusual foray into political commentary this week. She spoke at Mississippi's Jackson State University at their graduation. In her moving speech, she chastised the people who have been making her husband's...
Mississippi has joined North Carolina in policing where people pee. Comedian Tracy Morgan has joined the celebrities boycotting states with these "bathroom laws." The law signed Tuesday also takes away other discrimination protections from people...
The poor state of Mississippi is in dire straights. There isn't enough money in state or local coffers to pay for even basic services. Want to know why? Because the local jailers don't have enough prisoners anymore!...
For North Carolina and Mississippi, the hits just keep on coming. More appropriately, the hitmakers keep leaving. Just days after Bruce Springsteen wrote an impassioned plea against North Carolina's HB 2, now Bryan Adams is doing the...
Mitchell Moore with several international students (image from Campbell's Bakery Facebook)
In case you missed it, Mississippi just passed one of the most--if not THE most--outrageously homophobic laws in the nation. It protects business owners' right to refuse to serve anyone if so doing would trample...
Mississippi has gone down the path of states like North Carolina and Indiana before them. "Religious freedom" laws seem to be the new craze coursing through the bloodlines of Republican-led states. Conservative governor Phil Bryant signed...
Celebrities and journalists are fiercely reacting against the newly approved anti-LGBT Mississippi law, hiding under the guise of protecting religious freedom. One of the influential figures who recently expressed their sentiments in public was Ana...
I have always loved Ellen DeGeneres. She’s real, funny and always making her audiences laugh. That’s why it was no surprise to see her response to Mississippi’s new ant-LGBT law. After all, the beloved actress came...
It’s always gratifying when you get to see people fight back against injustice first-hand. In this day and age, people have no choice but to be open-minded, but sadly, there are still people out there who...
Donald Trump at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Mark Taylor, available under a Creative Commons-Noncommercial license)
We've known for some time that if Donald Trump succeeds in his bid to buy the Republican nomination, he will have his head handed to him in November. However, a recent poll illustrates just how...
mississippi laws anti-lgbt
Move over Pat McCrory, there's a new alpha douche-canoe in the old Confederacy and his laws are way worse than yours. Mississippi's notorious H.B. 1523 -- the so-called Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act -- was...
Over the weekend, the landlord of an RV park in Tupelo, Mississippi evicted a married couple because they're  in an interracial marriage. WTF?! Did we just enter a time warp and plummet back to 1961 Mississippi? The...
Gun Control
Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant has on his desk a bill called the Church Protection Act which, if he signed it, would allow churches in Mississippi to train armed guards to protect congregations. Piggybacked on...
When your public services are being woefully underfunded then it seems it would make sense to find some way to put money back into those services. After all, you want good schools to ensure that your...
A man in Natchez, MS, Charoyd Bell, got arrested for holding puppies up by their ears and tails. He posted pictures of it online along with pictures of his dogs fighting. There is an ongoing investigation...
Kenneth Stokes (image courtesy WLBT)
As you've probably seen, we at Liberal America have called out police officers who abuse their badges on numerous occasions. But a city councilman in Jackson, Mississippi has gone too far. He has actually called...