(6 May 2025)
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Vicksburg, Mississippi – 2 May 2025
1. American flag
2. PARTIALLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor George Flaggs, Vicksburg:
"It’s devastating to know that such an impactful project would be dismantled."
3. AmeriCorps sign
4. PARTIALLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor George Flaggs, Vicksburg:
"I’m fighting with every breath of my body to bring them back because the fact it is necessary. It is needed."
5. AmeriCorps sign from distance
6. Man sings the blues
7. PARTIALLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Stacey Mahoney, Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation executive director:
"We love AmeriCorps. I’ve been in this position 11 years. and they have been involved with the cultural center since before I was here."
8. Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation sign
9. PARTIALLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Stacey Mahoney, Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation executive director
"And they can get things done and knocked out that we don’t have the manpower to do."
10. Man plays guitar
11. FULLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Stacey Mahoney, Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation executive director
"Especially for an outside event, you know, getting tables from inside to out, setting up."
12. People sit in courtyard and look up at band
13. Man carrying chairs
14. People cleaning up after event
15. FULLY COVERED SOUNDBITE (English) Stacey Mahoney, Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation executive director
"What will you do with with this event when you don’t have AmeriCorps to help?"
16. Crowd watches blues band
17. Man stands in crowd
18. PARTIALLY COVERD SOUNDBITE (English) Jack Burns, lives in Vicksburg
"We love those kids. We miss them. We wish they’d come back. But, you know, wishes are like horses: if every, if we all got what we wished for, we’d all be riding, right?"
19. AmeriCorps sign
20. Blues singer speaks to crowd
STORYLINE:
A Mississippi mayor is asking the Trump administration to reserve course after cuts gutted the city’s AmeriCorps campus.
"It’s devastating. It’s devastating to know that such an impactful organization or project would be dismantled," Vicksburg, Mississippi Mayor George Flaggs said.
The Vicksburg campus was home 351 AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps members. On April 15, NCCC told volunteers they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control,” according to an email obtained by The Associated Press.
The unsigned memo to corps members said NCCC’s “ability to sustain program operations” was impacted by the Trump administration’s priorities and President Donald Trump’s executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency. Members would be officially dismissed April 30.
"I’m fighting with every breath of my body to bring them back," Flaggs said. "Let’s get this program back to work and let’s get it back to work quick."
Shortly after the cuts were announced, Flaggs sent a letter to Mississippi’s congressional delegation urging for the programs reinstatement. He said he has received responses from congressional representatives, but has not heard anything from the White House.
Two dozen states are suing the Trump administration over the AmeriCorps cuts; Mississippi is not one of them.
AP video by Sophie Bates
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