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'Brazen Disregard for Trans Health': Trump Ends Protections

Transgender Americans will no longer be protected from health-care discrimination after the Trump administration rolled back an Obama-era health-care policy on Friday.

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• By Ashton Pittman
• May 24, 2019

Willie Jones, president of Women for Progress, speaks to an audience at the Refill Cafe …

• May 24, 2019

Voter Reform Urgent, Local Women’s Group Says

People filled every seat in Refill Cafe on May 17 as Willie Jones, president of Women for Progress, held an open forum to discuss solutions to combat voter apathy and reform the voting process in Mississippi.

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• By Aliyah Veal
• May 24, 2019

Derenda Hancock, who leads the group of "clinic escorts" who help patients avoid protesters as …

• May 24, 2019

Yazoo City-resident Mindy Brown joined abortion rights demonstrators outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May …

• May 24, 2019

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the …

• May 24, 2019

Men and women held "Stand With Black Women" signs at a rally in support of …

• May 24, 2019

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the …

• May 24, 2019

Abby Williams, 24, and Cameron Baker, 26, showed up to support abortion rights in a …

• May 24, 2019

Doreene McCoy, 95, and her daughter, Joedda Gore, 75, joined a protest against state bans …

• May 24, 2019

Anti-abortion activist Coleman Boyd crashed an abortion rights demonstration at the Mississippi State Capitol on …

• May 24, 2019

Former state Sen. Gloria Williamson of Philadelphia, Miss., shared a story about a failed pregnancy …

• May 24, 2019

Outside the Mississippi State Capitol, Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance activist Patricia Ice told the story …

• May 24, 2019

Planned Parenthood Southeast Director Felicia Brown Williams spoke out alongside other abortion rights activists outside …

• May 24, 2019

Derenda Hancock leads a group of "clinic escorts" at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the …

• May 24, 2019

Mississippi State Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, speaks to a rally attendee. She joined abortion rights …

• May 24, 2019

At age 95, Doreene McCoy, seated in a wheelchair, arrived at the Mississippi State Capitol …

• May 24, 2019

Jackson residents Erin Shirley Orey, Erma Johnson, Pahedadra Robinson and Cheryl Turner joined hundreds of …

• May 24, 2019

Mississippians Rally for Abortion Rights to #StopTheBans

Around 200 Mississippi residents gathered outside the Mississippi State Capitol Building on May 21, 2019, …

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• May 24, 2019

The Mississippi Levee Board says the Steele Bayou floodgate was opened Thursday. The structure north …

• May 24, 2019