Bobbi-Jeanne Misick
Justice, Race and Equity Reporter, Gulf States NewsroomBobbi-Jeanne Misick is the justice, race and equity reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR, WWNO in New Orleans, WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama and MPB-Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. She is also an Ida B. Wells Fellow with Type Investigations at Type Media Center.
Previously, Bobbi-Jeanne worked as a reporter for WWNO and WRKF reporting on health, criminal and social justice issues. She has also worked as a reporter and producer in the Caribbean, covering a range of topics from different LGBTQ issues in the region to extrajudicial killings in Jamaica and the rise of extremism in Trinidad and Tobago.
Bobbi-Jeanne is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Before that, she worked as an assistant editor and pop culture writer for Essence.com.
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Innocence Project New Orleans, Raymond Flanks’ defense team, and DA Jason Williams’ Civil Rights Division filed the motion to vacate his conviction. -
The annual NOLA to Angola bike ride returned this month to help the nonprofit The First 72+ fight recidivism. Participants share what the ride means to them. -
Recent deaths in prisons across the Gulf South have highlighted issues from staffing to healthcare to climate change. An expert on deaths in custody discusses how they can be prevented. -
“In Quarantine with Anne Frank,” helps students learn to talk to each other about discrimination. -
One year after a winter storm left residents in Jackson without water for up to a month, the city is receiving millions of federal dollars. But the funds won't be enough to fix the aging system.
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A year ago, below freezing temperatures collapsed Jackson, Mississippi’s water system, leaving thousands without water and revealing longstanding cracks in its infrastructure. -
Leaders of southern HBCUs gathered for a virtual roundtable to discuss the significance of bomb threats made against their institutions and how to move forward. -
Two men who speak a rare language languished in Louisiana and Mississippi detention centers — in part, they say, because they weren't able to share their experiences in their native tongue. -
A new study shows connection between cancer rates and air pollution in Louisiana's poorest and most industrialized neighborhoods. -
The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
