COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- Coffee and conversation. That’s how members of a Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus and some area residents spent their Saturday morning. This assembly was some-more than only a assembly for a crater of joe.
Helen’s Kitchen sits only off a dilemma of a ancestral 7th Avenue North in a Friendly City. It’s a place several accommodate for comfort food and good conversation.
“It’s always been a place to find out information and what’s going on in town. You have a city hall, though we also have Helen’s Kitchen,” pronounced Representative Kabir Karriem.
The place with home-cooked dishes and smiles to hail we has been a protected space in a African American village for over 30 years.
“I don’t know of any place that we can go and come and have lunch, breakfast or even cooking and we competence be sitting subsequent to an inaugurated central or someone who lays bricks it’s only a common belligerent for good review and a beat of a community,” pronounced Karriem.
Saturday, Helen’s Kitchen non-stop a doors for good review with a first-ever coffee with members of a MS legislative black caucus. Representative Kabir Karriem, who’s partial of a group, says that coffee with a congress was a approach to hear from their village about what they consider should be changed.
“Black congress care was perplexing to use it as a indication to tell a other members this is something we should do to stay in balance with your constituents,” pronounced Karriem.
The contention over coffee enclosed topics like preparation and incarceration.
Judge Bennie Jones of West Point says this assembly is a step in a direction.
“You all are grabbling with Things we’ve been grabbling with for 50 years, so a onslaught continues, and I’m only happy that we’re in good hands,” pronounced Jones.
Karriem says since of people like Jones coffee with a congress is possible, and a work still continues.
“We would not be in a positions that we’re in if it wasn’t for a shoulders of a good ones who come before us. It’s not a flitting of a rod since we still have those people who fought for polite rights and leisure and equivalence 50 years ago, though a onslaught still continues,” pronounced Karriem.
The MS Legislative Black Caucus skeleton to do some-more events like this before a subsequent legislative session.