Jasmine Williams

In a world where Mississippi mostly lives in the minds of the general public as a relic, and where so many of our heroes remain unsung, we have to be intentional about how we engage with the media that gets to exist about the place we call home. For generations, one of the dominant narratives about Mississippi has been defined by terror: lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, segregation, violence, downtrodden Black folks, and a past the state supposedly can’t escape. Those stories are part of...

By Jasmine Williams | Editor, ‘Sipp Talk “If I fall, I fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom.”— Fannie Lou Hamer...