Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer
“There are two things we should all care about: never to forget where we came from and always praise the […]
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Commentary: Changing the flag is just the start
For now, leave the flagpoles bare. Let Mississippi earn a new flag that reflects an inclusive and just state.
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My Mississippi: The state flag is racist ? and unoriginal
Every other state’s flag features something distinctive about itself. Why doesn’t ours?
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Commentary: 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.
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My Mississippi: On being black and ready to die
“We are not shocked, because unfortunately we know it’s coming.”
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My Mississippi: Reading Ms. Welty after HB 1523
On a recent visit home, writer Douglas Ray reflected on Mississippi’s humane letters and inhumane laws.
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My Mississippi: A setback and a sigh
HB 1523 has been on the minds of Mississippi natives living in other parts of the country. For many, it underscores why they left.
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Mississippi 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.
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Primary Colors: How Robert Gray’s upset was more than a century in the making
Mississippi’s anachronistic primary system made it possible for a mystery man to win the Democratic nomination for governor.
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Watch Jon Stewart’s best segments about Mississippi
Even when ‘The Daily Show’ hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.
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