News about Dorothy Moore

A unusually rainy winter in 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread through Mississippi and Jackson, the city's most significant water system was frozen. Many restaurants, bars, lounges, and recording studios were forced to temporarily close down as a result of municipal government-enforced COVID-19 restrictions, leaving many musicians and members of the local music industry without places to work. After the Pearl River flooded in late August with heavy flooding, Jacksonians were struck once more by an all-too-familiar water crisis in 2022, and one of the city's two water treatment plants was interrupted. Many people lost water after a boil-water warning had been in place for more than a month and a half, and even as Governor Tate Reeves announced that the water pressure had returned to "normal" on September 5, the boil-water warning remains in force. At worst, as we see with the 2022 water crisis, the boil-water timeline could stretch to over a month, to where it would not be safe to drink or bathe — and some concert halls, restaurants, and small clubs have been temporarily closed down, causing leading artists and employees to be out of work and fighting for clean water in order to live. Although all of Jackson's surrounding towns, businesses, hospitals, public schools, and colleges are affected, the black and/or impoverished residents are the hardest affected. And though the water system has faced increasing challenges dating back to the 1980s, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the son of late mayor Jackson and well-known attorney Chokwe Lumumba, has been struggling to get the $1 billion needed for repairs and rehabilitation.