The Mississippi Center for Justice is delighted to announce that James Robertson, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia (retired), will be the Center’s distinguished honoree at the 2013 Mississippi on the Potomac Reception, which will be held Tuesday, June 4, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.

Five local nonprofits were collectively awarded $100,000 from the Open Society Foundations to jointly design a plan to increase low-income and minority communities’ influence and access to economic, civic and policy opportunities in the area. The planning grant is part of the foundation’s new Open Places Initiative, which aims to increase the capacity of local nonprofits and communities...