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Nsombi Lambright: Voter Purging Is the Number One Complaint from Our Voter Protection Hot Line

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For Immediate Release

Oct. 27, 2023

JACKSON – On Oct. 25, One Voice, MS NAACP, Civic Engagement Roundtable, MS Poor People’s Campaign, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law raised concerns that counties throughout Mississippi are improperly purging voters, putting them on the inactive list or removing them without notice. During the event, the groups presented information gathered from circuit clerks’ offices throughout the state and sought to educate citizens who may have been removed from the voting rolls. Nsombi Lambright, executive director of One Voice and a member of the Black Southern Women’s Collaborative, released the following statement:

“The maintenance of voter rolls is a normal process of cleaning voter data, eliminating duplicates, removing persons who are deceased or have been convicted of a disfranchising felony and removing inactive voters. Unfortunately, our state has used this process as a voter suppression tool by dropping voters from the rolls without notice.

“Voter purging is the number one complaint from our voter protection hot line.  It is very common for us to receive calls from voters who have voted at one place for years, only to discover that they are no longer eligible to vote at this place. 

“We are urging Mississippians to check your voting status. Make sure that you still vote where you think that you vote.  And make sure that your status is still active.  You can verify this information through the Secretary of State’s website and through your local circuit clerk’s office.  Voting is a human right, not a privilege. We have some very good circuit clerks and election commissioners who are committed to making sure that we all vote, but there are also those who want to take this right away.  We cannot let them win.”

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The Lighthouse | Black Girl Projects Celebrates Passage of Bill Extending Medicaid Coverage for Postpartum Moms

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For Immediate Release

March 8, 2023

JACKSON, Miss. – After the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill to extend Medicaid coverage for postpartum moms, Angela Grayson of The Lighthouse | Black Girl Projects released the following statement:

“I wholeheartedly believe that Senate Bill 2212 passed the Mississippi House of Representatives because Black women were relentless in keeping the conversation around postpartum care at the forefront on the radar of legislators,” said Angela Grayson, director of advocacy and organizing for The Lighthouse Black Girl Projects. “Even outside of the legislative session, we worked to highlight the challenges of Black maternal health. Black women and mamas, and midwives came together to say that this legislation was good not only for Black women, but for women, and for the state of Mississippi.”

Earlier this year, NBC News noted that “The Mississippi Maternal Mortality Report shows that the maternal mortality rate increased by 8.8% between 2013‐2016 and 2017‐2019, with the latter period being the most recent one analyzed by researchers.”

“We will continue to work through The Black Women Vote Coalition and use the momentum from this win to continue to advocate for Medicaid expansion, particularly to ensure hospitals in the Delta are open and that people have access to healthcare that is a reasonable distance from their homes. We will continue to fight to ensure that women have the tools to advocate for themselves.”

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