MS Hummingbird Recordings

For the 2nd year in a row, IAJE staffers share their scary stories, some personal and some traditional. This audio comes from a Facebook live.

We talk to a IAJE youth organizer who talks about the importance of voting and civic duty for all Mississippians, especially young voters.

Saltwater creeps up from the Mississippi River and threatens drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in the New Orleans Metro area. We talk about the latest info about how the environmental crisis is hurting communities.

We talk to IAJE founder Lorena Quiroz about what Hispanic Heritage Month means for her, the many celebrations popping up across the Deep South and the future of Latinx youth in the region.

After meteorological experts record the hottest Summer on record, we talk about how the hot months were for Mississippi and the laborers who had to endure it to make a living.

We have an update on what IAJE is doing in Hattiesburg after a 16-year-old boy died at a poultry plant.

We also talk about the four-year anniversary of the ICE raids in Central Mississippi that left many poultry plant workers arrested and deported.

Following the death of 16-year-old Duvan Pérez, after he was injured at a Hattiesburg poultry plant, IAJE joined advocates and community leaders in a press conference with the latest information about the teen's case and action being organized in the aftermath.

After 16-year-old Duvan Pérez died from injuries he got in a workplace accident at the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Hattiesburg, IAJE has been in contact with the teen's parent and seeks justice for his death.

Non-profit newsroom Verite reports that 42-year-old Ernesto Rocha-Cuadra died in ICE custody on June 23, 2023. He was being detained at a facility in Central Louisiana after crossing the boarder, pleading for asylum.

ICE says Ernesto died in the hospital after a heart attack but his brother, Francisco, believes there is more to his death than what is being said.

We talk about the second annual Queercinera and what it means to hold an event honoring the LGBTQ+ community in the Deep South