The Mississippi Black Leadership Institute (MBLI) is a community of scholars, elected officials, business leaders, and community organizers working together to exchange information, provide support, and provide access to other local professionals and political leaders to produce progressive change. MBLI is the brainchild of Congressman Bennie G. Thompson and former Executive Director Derrick Johnson, who is committed to developing community and political leaders from progressive communities across the state of Mississippi. The Institute offers a professional leadership development immersion, which is facilitated by One Voice Mississippi, Incorporated. They believe that a collective vision can be achieved by cultivating emerging leaders through a common bond of unity, excellence, and a commitment to transform Mississippi.
The Mississippi Black Leadership Institute opens doors of opportunity by promoting an agenda of leadership development to achieve equity and justice for vulnerable and marginalized Mississippians whose voices and values are often underrepresented.
We are looking for service-minded people with a strong love for community to join our prestigious leadership institute. Although quite a few of our alumni go on to be elected to office, we seek participants from various backgrounds and fields of interest.
Over the course of nine months, participants (age 25-45) learn more about civic engagement, public policy, and state history while developing close relationships with other leaders. Graduates of the Institute will help advance, advocate for, and articulate an equity agenda in their respective communities.
"My experience in MBLI was personally and professionally transformative."
- NaKeitra Burse, 2017 MBLI Alum
A growing body of research shows that Black women and their babies have worse health outcomes than their White counterparts, regarding pregnancy-related complications. Many of these complications are preventable. Education, income, nor socioeconomic status are protective factors for Black women.
As a minority-owned, woman-owned business, health outcomes for Black women, relative to childbirth are of particular interest to Six Dimensions, LLC. Laboring with Hope is a short documentary about loss, grief, and the hope for change. The documentary provides the backdrop for improving health outcomes for Black women.
The goals of this project are:
from the perotmusuem.org
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science, in partnership with the African American Museum, Dallas, is excited to announce that local architect and emerging artist Daniel M. Gunn is the winner of the Staircase Project design competition. In addition to a cash prize, Gunn’s larger-than-life image, titled GIANT STEPS – Celebrating Extraordinary Achievements of African-American Leaders in STEM, has been installed on the Perot Museum’s multi-story, outdoor staircase facing Field Street, and will remain in place through Memorial Day.
Our mission is to ensure an equal voice for traditionally silenced communities. When One Voice’s work is done, we envision a Mississippi with a healthy vibrant thriving neighborhoods, schools, economy, and most importantly families.
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