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‘My Mississippi, Your Mississippi, and Our Mississippi’

February 20, 2015

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 Anderson by white teenagers in 2011. Many outlets have republished Judge Reeves’ powerful words in their entirety, and we choose to be among them.

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Egg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?

October 13, 2014

Mississippi’s football success is getting very, very expensive.

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History says Mississippi can’t have two good SEC football teams at the same time. Has that changed?

October 5, 2014

During a season in which Mississippi boasted two of the country’s top three college football teams, we explore the question that has frustrated Rebels and Bulldogs for a century.

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Mississippi produces the most ‘geniuses’ in the South

September 18, 2014

Mississippians win MacArthur “Genius Grants” at a higher rate than residents of any other Southern state. What, if anything, does that say about us?

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To prevent a ‘license to discriminate,’ don’t let anti-LGBT judges run unopposed

August 15, 2014

This week’s same-sex marriage ruling from Rankin County shows the hostility to LGBT rights among some of Mississippi’s elected judges.

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Sound, fury, and the burden of Mississippi history

August 14, 2014

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.

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Commentary: Dr. Jones knows if Ole Miss leads, others will pay attention

August 4, 2014

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.

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Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal

June 23, 2014

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.

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Mississippi has changed since Freedom Summer. The struggle for justice and equality has not.

June 19, 2014

Mississippi’s progress was on full display at Mt. Zion church in Neshoba County last Sunday. So was its unfinished business.

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Supporting Mississippi’s young men of color: A conversation with William Buster of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

March 20, 2014

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.

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