My MississippiMy Mississippi: The state flag is racist – and unoriginal
Every other state's flag features something distinctive about itself. Why doesn't ours?
By Taylor McGraw
CommentaryCommentary: A call for a more careful use of rhetoric
A response to recent columns The Daily Mississippian by professors of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.
By LaToya Faulk, Jennifer Jackson, Amber Nichols-Buckley, & Sarah Bartlett Wilson
My MississippiMy Mississippi: On being black and ready to die
"We are not shocked, because unfortunately we know it's coming."
By Caleb Herod
AnalysisMississippi leads south in black student suspensions
Black students compose half of Mississippi's enrollment but receive 74 percent of suspensions according to a new analysis of federal school discipline data.
By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report
"Honest Mississippi"‘My Mississippi, Your Mississippi, and Our Mississippi’
The following speech by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves -- Mississippi's second African American federal judge -- has been shared widely since it was read in his courtroom on February 10. The occasion was a sentencing hearing for the perpetrators of a modern-day lynching: the brutal murder of James Craig...
By Jake McGraw
EducationSound, fury, and the burden of Mississippi history
As Faulkner instructs, the past is never dead. But lingering Confederate sympathy among Mississippians – flaring in the wake of the University of Mississippi's diversity and inclusion report – proves that it is often misremembered.
By Jake McGraw
CommentaryCommentary: Dr. Jones knows if Ole Miss leads, others will pay attention
Mississippi's flagship university has the opportunity to be a leader for institutions dealing with legacies of racism and exclusion. But before that can happen, we need to support Dan Jones's leadership from within.
By Adam Ganacheau
AnalysisFifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
More than one-fourth of Mississippi public schools are at least 90 percent black. Another tenth are at least 90 percent white. And, just as in 1964, students in those identifiably black schools receive an inferior education.
By Jake McGraw
CommentaryMississippi has changed since Freedom Summer. The struggle for justice and equality has not.
Mississippi's progress was on full display at Mt. Zion church in Neshoba County last Sunday. So was its unfinished business.
By Jake McGraw
Q&ASupporting Mississippi’s young men of color: A conversation with William Buster of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The director of WKKF's Mississippi and New Orleans programming speaks about President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative, the challenges unique to young black and Latino men, and what success will look like in Mississippi.
By Jake McGraw
FeaturesLife and irony at Ole Miss
UM's first black female student body president encountered racism at the university, but she also learned the meaning of love and compassion.
By Kimbrely Dandridge
CommentaryCommentary: The University of Mississippi’s latest ‘incident’ brings both pain and illumination
The desecration of the James Meredith statue goes to show that while the university has been desegregated, the work of integration is unfinished.
By Jake McGraw
JusticeReducing racial disparities in our prisons: What can Mississippi learn from other states?
The bipartisan sentencing reform bill moving through the Legislature does not address racial disparities. That's a serious omission.
By Jennifer Kirby-McLemore
AnalysisRacial disparities in incarceration are getting worse. It’s time Mississippi took notice.
African Americans account for 61 percent of Mississippi's prisoners, but only 37 percent of its population. Mississippi should join a national movement to reexamine the racial impact of its sentencing laws.
By Jennifer Kirby-McLemore