As COVID cases remain plateaued, health officials worry about putting stress on the system.

Then, what the Supreme Court decision means for a Mississippi DACA recipient.

Plus, today is Juneteenth. We look at how Mississippi’s black community is celebrating.

Segment 1:

Mississippi’s healthcare system is under growing stress by the coronavirus causing concern in the healthcare community. A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been identified in Oxford, and State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs says the community could be in the middle of a significant outbreak. He says they have linked several of these cases to fraternity rush parties. Dobbs also says there are other worrisome indicators coming out of the department's surveillance data.

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Advocates for immigrant rights in Mississippi are responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Trump’s attempt to end the DACA Program. Jesus Roman, a DACA recipient, was born in Mexico but has been in the United States since he was one. He was at his job in Flowood when he heard the news about the Supreme Court’s decision to keep the DACA program. 

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The Emancipation Proclamation - an act of executive authority by President Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves in the confederate states - became official on January 1st, 1863. But it would take over two years for word to reach enslaved people west of the Mississippi River. When a Union General reached Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865 with news the Civil war had ended and slaves were freed, a holiday was born. Brad Franklin, an organizer of Juneteen on Farish Street, joins us to share how central Mississippi is celebrating Juneteenth.

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