Our Statement on Justice for Black Lives
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin June 2, 2020 Dear Friends, On May 25th, we regretfully added to the ever-growing list…
Trauma Awareness Symposium on August 17 at Jackson State University
The ACEs Awareness Foundation is presenting the Trauma Awareness Symposium on August 17. The symposium will be held at Jackson State University, and is being organized in concert with the…
Unearthing and Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History With Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr.
The weekend I met Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr. was the 82nd anniversary of the lynching of his then-29-year-old father Elwood, an Oxford sharecropper, on Sept. 17, 1935.