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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 weekly news co-host on WROX Radio (97.5 FM) and collaborator with StoryWorks/Reveal Labs from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Aallyah has a bachelor’s in journalism with minors in communications and theater from Delta State University. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report, and co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom.
The City of Clarksdale has already voted to fund a local nonprofit to create a homeless shelter, but once residents found out it would be placed downtown, they began organizing to stop this from happening.
Mississippi sees some of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country, despite known health and economic benefits. A group of health advocates in the Delta is working to change the stigma and biases that stand in the way.
A Clarksdale woman is hosting voter registration drives across the Delta in hopes of increasing turnout this November and improving quality of life for herself and her town.
After receiving a $63,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Human Services, residents living on the outskirts of rural Schlater will have access to clean drinking water throughout a new water well system.
Though community members are calling for a district employee’s termination because of racist posts, the Clarksdale school board did not take any action, and its leader defended the employee.
This is the first known Mississippi school to close due to a COVID-19 outbreak after reopening earlier this month.
As schools reopen during a pandemic, post George Floyd, teachers have more to prepare for than just educating their students.
Clarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy is asking residents to help clean up the city because city employees have contracted COVID-19
Twenty-one school districts were affected by the governor’s executive order, and there is some confusion about how to apply it to reopening plans.
The governor delayed the opening of schools in a handful of counties and ordered a statewide mask mandate Tuesday.
Years ago the Legislature passed a law that pays teachers for improved school performance. Many say the program is unfair and the money doesn’t go to where it’s needed most.
I spent a year reporting on the state’s school’s recognition program. Here’s how I wrote the story.
A potential elementary school in the Delta and a middle school in Canton are the only two charter school applications to make it to the final stage of the process this year.
Mississippi is lagging behind the national average in terms of response rates for the 2020 Census, putting the state in jeopardy of losing millions in federal funding if residents are not counted.
Educators are pleading with Mississippi leaders not to force a return to the classroom just yet, warning people will die if schools rush to reopen.