Asia Davis got a special gift on Mother’s Day in 2017: her first and only child, Myles Karter Davis. Six years later, Myles' birthday would fall on Mother's Day again, but Asia would not be there to celebrate it. She was 1 of 8 Black mothers killed in New Orleans in less than 7 weeks.

WALLACE, La.— There are only a handful of homes situated on Alexis Court, but there are a whole lot of memories. At one end of the short street, facing the Mississippi River, is Fee-Fo-Lay Café, run by twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner. The Fifolet, according to local lore, is a spirit that haunts the swamps and guards the treasures of pirate Jean Lafitte. Growing up, the Banner sisters heard a variation of the myth from their grandmother, and the café bears its name as an homage to their grandpare

JACKSON, Miss. — Black women in Jackson, Mississippi, are busy. They always have been. Now, largely through the work of coalition building and political organizing, Black women in Jackson are fighting a wave of repression that many compare to the days of Jim Crow, standing on the shoulders of those who came before them.