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The Marshall Project •

Trump Is Backing Away From Police Reform. Here’s What That Means for 12 Places.

One of the Justice Department’s goals under President Joe Biden was to investigate some of the nation’s most troubled police agencies, including the ones responsible for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols.

Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the prospect of federal oversight appears likely to disappear in most of those 12 agencies.
The Marshall Project •

Jackson, MS, Wants Curfew Centers to Cut Crime. Here’s What Others Did.

After a 17-year-old was charged with the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Eugene Kelly in Jackson, Mississippi’s first murder of 2024, one council member made a familiar demand: Impose a nighttime youth curfew to “stop these kids from becoming killers.”

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba then offered an even stronger response: The city should create “youth engagement centers” to keep children off the streets after dark.

Curfews have been imposed and abandoned numerous times in Jackson over the decades.
The Marshall Project •

How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today

Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it.

He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White people, according to the Census — who would be granted full citizenship after the Civil War.

By 1868, Caldwell was one of 16 Black delegates at the state’s post-war constitutional convention, which extended the right to vote to all men and created a framework for public education.
The 19th •

We asked book lovers to reflect on Hispanic Heritage Month. Here’s what they recommended.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, The 19th spoke with lifelong book lovers — from those working in publishing full time to those who have dedicated years to making book-related content on social media — about the themes that resonate with them in works by Latinx authors and the books that best represent those ideas.

The Latin American diaspora consists of multiple complex identities from many different places. Though they live in the United States, the interviewees also represent Cuba, Puerto Rico,
The 19th •

Ta’Kiya Young's shooting highlights sobering reality for Black pregnant women in America

Nadine Young left her home in Ohio under the crushing weight of grief. By the end of 1989, the young mother of four had lost both of her parents, a stillborn baby girl and her sister. She packed up and moved to Mississippi for nearly a decade, where she gave birth to a fifth son. She taught her boys to be respectable and to always do what police asked.

“I had major, major talks with them, so if they had any encounters they complied and did whatever they needed to do so they wouldn’t lose their
The 19th •

These Louisiana sisters took their fight against big industry in ‘Cancer Alley’ to court — and won

Twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner are celebrating a win in their fight against big industry in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” In a court hearing this month, Judge J. Sterling Snowdy ruled against St. John the Baptist Parish, declaring a 33-year-old industrial zoning ordinance null and void based on a procedural issue. The decision effectively stands in the way of a proposed grain export facility that would compound pollution in the area and threaten its historic landscape.

“This is a big moment for [
in-these-times •

Fighting Industrial Development and Defending Black History in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”

WALLACE, La.— There are only a handful of homes situated on Alexis Court, but there are a whole lot of memories. At one end of the short street, facing the Mississippi River, is Fee-Fo-Lay Café, run by twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner. The Fifolet, according to local lore, is a spirit that haunts the swamps and guards the treasures of pirate Jean Lafitte. Growing up, the Banner sisters heard a variation of the myth from their grandmother, and the café bears its name as an homage to their grandpare
The 19th •

Florida mother is one of the latest Black women killed by guns

Ajike Owens, known as AJ, loved and advocated for her children. Her family and friends said she would do anything for them. The single mother of four made time to play football with her children in the neighborhood and was saving money to buy a home so they could have their own yard to play in. She took her children and others in the neighborhood to the YMCA to swim and previously led a praise dance team at her church.

Owens, 35, was creating a village around the children in her life before she
The 19th •

Louisiana sisters fight to protect their community's health and enslaved ancestors' history

WALLACE, La.— There are only a handful of homes situated on Alexis Court, but there are a whole lot of memories.

At one end of the short street, facing the Mississippi River, is Fee-Fo-Lay Café, run by twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner. The Fifolet, according to local lore, is a spirit that haunts the swamps and guards the treasures of pirate Jean Lafitte. Growing up, the Banner sisters
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