Jarvis DeBerry
MSNBC Opinion Editor
Jarvis DeBerry is an opinion editor for MS NOW Daily. He was previously editor-in-chief at the Louisiana Illuminator and a columnist and deputy opinion editor at The Times-Picayune.
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Trump’s pick for a top FEMA job has the wrong idea about charity
Trump, who has talked of shuttering the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seems determined not to staff it with experienced, enterprising people.
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Jailhouse lawyer’s election win prompts uncomfortable questions
You can’t have a penal system as merciless as ours and not rob the outside world of people as talented as Calvin Duncan, the newly elected clerk of criminal court in New Orelans.
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Target’s new smile policy disrespects its employees — and the shoppers who left
The Minneapolis-based retailer isn’t suffering lower sales because its employees are rude but because it disrespected a significant portion of its customer base.
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Cancer is bigger than Scott Adams. President Trump ought to act like it.
Trump told Scott Adams he was ‘On it!’ But what about all the other cancer patients he’s disregarded with cuts to medical research funding?
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Louisiana governor’s demand for a Charlie Kirk statue is a shameful power play
It’s unclear what percentage of LSU students would want a Kirk statue, but any such monument would be built against the will of a significant proportion of the LSU community.
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Why Chicago’s Brandon Johnson fumed at ‘illegal alien’ question
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson argued that the phrase “illegal alien” strips away the humanity of the person in question.
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New film shows Andrew Young embracing the civil rights work that wasn’t glamorous
The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no less necessary.
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America’s gun violence epidemic hits particularly hard in Mississippi
The Hospitality State accounts for half of the 10 U.S. counties with the highest gun homicide rates. Nine deaths after homecoming games last week cast new light on the crisis.
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‘Reading Rainbow’ returns to a country far more hostile to books — and diversity
“Reading Rainbow” returns after 19 years and, fittingly, lands a day before 2025’s “Banned Books Week.”
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Trump seems to think only Democrats will feel pain during this government shutdown
If previous government shutdowns didn’t result in massive layoffs, then there’s no reason this one should.