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Aallyah Wright is a native of Clarksdale and a Mississippi Delta reporter covering education and local government. She is also a guest radio host for WROX Radio (97.5 FM) and was a playwright/reporter for "Beautiful Agitators," a 2017 project by StoryWorks/Reveal Labs from the Center for Investigative Reporting in partnership with Mississippi Today. Aallyah has a bachelor’s in journalism with a minor in communications and theatre from Delta State University. Prior to joining Mississippi Today January 2017, she interned as a reporter for the Bolivar Commercial and was the project producer and community journalist for The Cleveland Yearbook, a project by The Center for Investigative Reporting and Delta Arts Alliance. In 2018, Aallyah earned a fellowship with Hechinger Report to report on Mississippi’s teacher shortage and its effects. Her reporting with the Mississippi Today Education Team for "Behind the Headlines:Cleveland Central" received third-place at the 68th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards. Her work has appeared in The Hechinger Report, The Daily Journal and Delta Magazine. She is a Community Advisory Board Member for Aspen Youth Leaders Fellowship Delta and a board member for Lower Mississippi River Foundation.
The conversation surrounding teen pregnancy in areas like the Mississippi Delta focuses much on prevention efforts, advocates say, but, what are the immediate next steps when a teenager becomes pregnant?
District officials say they’re returning to a previously unenforced policy requiring seven days written notice to address the Clarksdale school board
Author Glory Edim made a T-shirt that birthed a nationwide bookclub, a literary festival in Brooklyn and a sisterhood among women of color across the world
Because of his experiences on the Gulf Coast – helping to rebuild a district from the ground up after Hurricane Katrina – Earl Joe Nelson Jr. says he has insight to the issues the community faces with having limited resources.
Report uses CDC data and census reports to drill into Delta-specific trends and state policy as indicators for teen pregnancy rates, like poverty and Mississippi state law requiring parents to decide if their child receives sex education.
Recently, Olecia James and Jasmine Shepard talked to a group of educators, parents and students from Newark, New Jersey, during a panel discussion about experiences in the Cleveland School District.
Mississippi school districts are working hard ahead of the retest, but face several barriers, including teacher shortages, low parental engagement, language gaps. “We’re not making excuses, but there’s a story behind that number,” said one school official.
The mayor explains details of a program to provide resources and intervention to help ex-felons and those with criminal backgrounds to become better citizens or leave town.
No details about the agreement, including how much money the city spent to fight the case, were provided to the public.
Educators at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey created a course around the Till book and the civil rights movement. Students and teachers then traveled through the South, including the Mississippi Delta.
Mayor Chuck Espy and police officials announced a five-point plan to help bolster the city’s effort to fight crime. One of the measures included moving assistance to criminals.
Cleveland School District is facing a second lawsuit alleging racial discrimination but for Olecia James, who finished her freshman year at Alcorn State as a ROTC Cadet with a 4.0 GPA, it’s about “controlling what you can control.”
Business owner finds success more about being “resourceful than having resources” and area millennials took note.
After several bills filed during the legislative session to pave the way for a city election died in committee, leaders are planning a scaled back increase to address sidewalk, lighting and flood issues
A freshman student at Coahoma Community College charged with possession of a controlled substance and firearm on a school’s campus.